Dan's Writings
Excerpt from Dan's New Book
It is a memoir about the last ten years of our lives and the life ...
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The Meaning of a Name
Many of the fathers in my family have been saddled with the decepti...
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Nit Wits in the Sagebrush
My passing interest in what is going on at Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ra...
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Celebrating The Earth From The Ground Up
Spring is the easiest time of year to celebrate the earth because b...
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Thinking Like A Mountain
The Sunday after Thanksgiving, just as the sun was lightening the s...
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Basing Decisions On The Unknown
I am imagining a call to the United States Park Service where the p...
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Conversations with the Vegetable Guy
A dozen years ago, during a semester when I was teaching at Carlet...
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Waiting for Summer Rain
Last night, the wind woke me about 12:30. It whipped the cottonwood...
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The Displaced Bison
Last winter, I wrote a monthly musing that talked about a group of ...
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April Can Break Your Heart
The month of April always gets me thinking about T.S. Eliot’s poem,...
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