
Notes on Pan, pleasure, and play

Thoughts on Dillard, Thoreau, and animal admiration

New year, new Orion-approved books

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

When cryptid research turns personal

"We’re in this together. We’re here for you, and with you. We can take care of each other. "

On bears, oil, addiction, and empathy

Blurring the boundaries between terror and tenderness

"How much of the pleasure of making a garden is in the plan? "

On facing the Pegasus problem logically.

On contradictions and cryptids

Does the ivory-billed woodpecker still exist?

Searching for evil and finding ourselves amidst a haunting pattern of cattle mutilations in the West