"As far as range and scope are concerned, those things are in constant focus in the West, where you can spot a snowstorm moving in from miles away, and the Rocky Mountains loom large on dark mornings as I walk my kids to school."
"In this essay, my limited understanding of the internet means that Google becomes the mystical made prosaic. I don’t understand Google, and maybe I fear it, but the search engine is like an external self or a communal self without a body."
"I think as a society, we're always trying to be useful, to be helpful, but so often, our loved ones — in whatever ways they are suffering — just want to know they're not alone. True presence is courageous."
"The relationships between animals can seem quite savage when viewed up close. They become even more savage when a child is also watching and asks why."
"The tricky part of writing, for me, is discovering a proactive balance of solitude and community and finding time to write while working to sustain my dream life."
"If you only read one writer, you’ll write things that sound like that writer. If you read a variety of writers you’ll produce work that’s both more idiosyncratic and more interesting."
Don’t be the person who reads it on their phone. Too many things can go wrong, and it’s distracting to watch someone repeatedly unlock the screen when it goes dark or constantly zoom in when they can’t see the tiny print.
