Original essays
Tucson edition In the Swim, Bike, Run series in December, we chased athletes and water through Coachella Valley, California. New years in Tucson, Arizona is an opportunity for us to look at a different desert locale through the lens of … Continue reading The Desert is All About Water
Travel drama in Tucson I’ll be writing about water issues in Tucson shortly, but this adventure deserves its own post. Previous evidence that we’re travel drama magnets can be found here and here. We arrived at Tucson airport in plenty of time for … Continue reading “My Beanie!”
The changes that 2023 brought At the end of 2023, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on what changed and what I learned in 2023, and set an intention for 2024. I’m writing this in a temporary location, … Continue reading Going to the Forest
Christmas Eve, 1918 This is a fragment of a piece I posted for Armistice Day back in November. It seems fitting to post this today, Christmas Eve. Looking through a box of photographs while clearing out my late parents’ house, … Continue reading Peaceful Night
The story of my citizenship interview during the pandemic. The story of how I became a US citizen is the first I ever published on my WordPress blog three years ago. I brought it over to Substack when I came … Continue reading Ferry to America
Part 3 of chasing triathletes and water through the Coachella Valley This is also one of a series of essays looking at places we travel through the lens of water, a lens through which we can see the unseen. At the end … Continue reading Run
Part 2 of chasing triathletes and water through the Coachella Valley This is also one a series of essays looking at places we travel through the lens of water, a lens through which we can see the unseen. Part 1 found our Ironman … Continue reading Bike
Part 1 of chasing triathletes and water through the Coachella Valley This is also one a series of essays looking at places we travel through the lens of water. You can find earlier travel posts here. “Fish do disgusting things in … Continue reading Swim
Current approaches to sea level rise adaptation and recovery promote gentrification and inequality This article first ran in January 2023. As we enter storm season here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s timely to post it again, lightly edited, for Mostly … Continue reading An Imperfect Storm Part Two
Recent flooding in Puget Sound shows that predictive models work This article first ran in December 2022. As we enter storm season here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s timely to post it again—lightly edited with a voiceover added—for Mostly Water’s … Continue reading An Imperfect Storm