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Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, AZ
This isn’t a story about finding yourself, there are enough of those already. I am the woman I always was; she is simply untethered now....


Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, AZ
We make our way over to High Gates Road, cutting across this valley of tumbleweed and cactus, of open grasslands under a cobalt sky, and...


Las Cienegas NCA / Empire Ranch, AZ
Between Cedar and Oak Tree Canyon a heifer shuffles off, her molasses licking disrupted by our approach. Her body a rug of black, her...


Gabaldon Horse Camp, Apache Sitgreaves National Forest, AZ
If you travel enough eventually the names of places, natural and unnatural, begin to repeat – forming some kind of staccato rhythm as you...


April 13, 2024 – Las Cienegas to Geronimo’s Trail, Peloncillo Mountains
It’s colder today, no doubt a function of yesterday’s wind, but at least it has ceased for now. I imagine it carries a constant presence...


El Camino del Diablo, Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge, AZ
There is a woman I covet. I lose her. I find her. I lose her again and each time I hope she stays a little longer than the last. Her...


Miller Canyon Wilderness, Huachuca Mtns, AZ
Who am I and when did that question become so difficult? A mother. A writer. A woman trying to make sense of it all, balancing the past...


Chiricahua Mountains
I sit here in the place of those before me, riding the same trails, gazing on the same mountains. Washing my face in the same spring...
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