Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes from mountains to the west of us and the mountains to the south.

It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.