You might remember my post about Noah Strycker from earlier this year. Strycker is one of the most recognized birders in the world. In fact, he once set the single-year “Big Year” record and documented the experience in Birding Without …
Read: The Bin Laden Papers
Not gonna lie. You really have to want to read “The Bin Laden Papers,” but we all have to credit Nelly Lahoud for her amazing work in presenting this material. If anyone thinks eighteen minutes can’t change the world, this …
BikeLife: Where It Began
Indiana, mid 1970s. I was a sick kid. At six-months of age, I was forced to live in an oxygen tent. Day after day, week after week, month after month, if I remember correctly, and by remember I mean thinking …
Read: Fly Girl, A Memoir
I caught the very tail end of the sophisticated flying era. Sophisticated might be a bit much but I’m going with it. Civil flying. Professional, semi-exclusive and designed to be treated like something special. After all, we are talking about …
Creative: Give It a Few Hours
One of the things I love about New Mexico is the transition from season to season. Some seasons are like boxers, masters of the jab. Reaching out, reaching out but waiting to unload the power hand at just the right …
Read: The Premonition
If you have not read Michael Lewis my advice is to go back to the beginning. Go the beginning of his book list and start there. Michael is a great storyteller. Two of my favorites are Flash Boys and The …
Read: The Girl with the Leica
Helena Janeczek’s novel “The Girl with the Leica,” follows the real-life story of photographer, anti-fascist Gerda Taro who also happened to be the partner of Robert Capa, the most famous war photographer of his era. Taro, sadly, became the first …
Read: A Man of the World
Anyone who knows National Geographic Society or National Geographic Magazine will know the name Grosvenor. “A Man of the World” tracks the course of the fifth Grosvenor to hold court over the Nat Geo. This book will invoke both jealously …
BikeLife: Rural America (Believe it or not.)
Can cycling save rural America, and does rural America need to be saved? Good questions, and thank you to a reader for mentioning rural America and the fact that cycling is “totally impractical,” in these spacious places. Here’s the thing …
Read: Memories of a Dog
Daidõ Moriyama’s “Memories of a Dog,” is what happens when someone reads, daydreams, and realizes the anguish that photography creates. This book is what happens when someone admits that much of what they do doesn’t work. This book is the …
