mountain musing

While taking off from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Ethiopia Airlines, I noticed a lot of water running across the wings. A bit alarmed, I asked…

Anglos have long been in the habit of appropriating—or misappropriating—American Indian references for anything from professional sports to cowboy movies to politics to fake history…

When the older residents of the Hispanic land-grant village of Torreón, in the eastern foothills of the Manzano Mountains, grew up in the 1940s, the…

Colombia could teach Donald Trump a thing or two about building a beautiful wall. The Spanish colonists constructed one in Cartagena. After half a millennium,…

Like much in Colombia, its mountains are deceptive. The country still has six glaciers in three ranges, but they are retreating dramatically and all are…

If you looked for the first time at Cerrillos’s dirt streets, collapsing adobes, empty buildings and abandoned mines, you might not notice that the village…

“You’ve been here before?” I asked Atith, the Cambodian police captain, as he led the way along an obscure path through the jungle to search…

“Seek and ye shall find,” Matthew advised us in the New Testament, but what he neglected to tell us is whether what we find will…

Having discovered that my wife seemed to have disappeared, without reason or cause or explanation, off the face of the Earth, or at least off…