Author: McFeats

Professor, writer, hiker.

Small Transformations

Learning some new words from John Banville: brumous, nacreous, oubliette, oneiric, velleity. Toni Morrison taught me gelid.

Biking Culture in the Navajo Nation

Link to non-profit Silver Stallion (donations welcome): https://silverstallion.org

Farewell, Tim Wakefield.

Reaching the Summit of Tsoodzil (Mount Taylor)

One More Line for the Typewriter Manifesto:

Hot for Teacher: Climate Change and Education in America

Project Samsquanch: Bike-Packing the Colorado Trail

A New Hobby: Leather Craft

Necro-Anthropology and the Heart of Darkness in Cormac McCarthy’s Southwest

Happy Bloomsday from Texas, and so long Cormac McCarthy.

On the Subject of Work and Life

Black Bodies; White Violence

Puttin’ on the Foil: The Boston Bruins in 2022-2023

Game photos from March 2020: Bruins in Florida.

Turntable Maintenance and a Return to Nick Cave and PJ Harvey on Vinyl

From The Filthy Platen: http://filthyplaten.blogspot.com/2014/03/identified-nick-caves-typewriter.html?m=1

The Gaze, the Imaginary Other, and Eric-Paul Riege’s Fiber Art

Living Beyond the Grid and Resisting the Attention Economy

An Irish Toast to Passing Winter (and to Broken Ski Poles)

With Great Effort Comes Great Reward: Hiking Mount Taylor

Heading to Mount Taylor

Snowshoeing through the Zuni Mountains