The woman’s hands waved high in the air. “There’s a big elk right there!” she whispered. “I know,” I said in a relaxed tone. “I see it.” The young bull elk was eagerly tending to a thicket of brush about...
To enter is to welcome a world of light. To get there is to welcome a world of pain. We woke before dawn.
“Six people have died here since 2004,” the sign warned. It seemed like a place we needed to go. The path to Angel’s Landing leads 1,500 feet up from the valley floor. The trip will take you through...
Eight times the lighting struck. It hit the same spot over and over before streaking east over the highway towards Zion National Park. The wind whipped my car back and forth; a southbound I-15 sign dangled headfirst towards...
I thought back to the haunted house and the door that opened on its own. It must have been over 16 years ago. The house was in Midtown Memphis—just a few miles from where I live now—and I...
“All these years the people said he’s acting like a kid. He did not know he could not fly, so he did.” I’m not a country music fan by today’s definition. I don’t go in for Nashville or...
12,101 feet—“One wrong step and you’re dead,” I thought. The clouds whipped around the peak, blurring the line between Earth and sky. The clouds were to blame. They were to blame for the low visibility and the slick,...
“It’s my birthday in 12 minutes,” Ludacris shouted. “Y’all know what we do on birthdays!” We put our hands in the air. And they stayed there. But long before James and I wound up at an unexpected southern...
I remember the crack of gunfire and the smell of powder in the air. I remember the day this all began. The sawdust left a trail to the bullet holes behind my desk. That was over 1,400 days...
It was all good until the naked hippie showed up. That, I decided, was a sign. It was time to go. Not that I have a problem with naked hippies. It’s just that the overweight, middle-aged man sauntering...
