For more than 100 years, the two-story, brick building on a corner in downtown Memphis has been a fixture of the city’s landscape. Built in the late 1800s on the grounds of a ruined church, the weathered facade...
He took three strides towards freedom. On the fourth, he returned to the sea. Four months ago, a sea turtle was struck by a jet ski off the coast of Tavernier, Florida, a tiny outpost of an island...
“So this is what it’s like to live on the moon.” A few paces ahead, David Stein paused to catch his breathe on the trail. The Kaiparowits Plateau spreads south for 50 miles from the outpost of Escalante,...
“There is only darkness in the canyon, only the howling wind whipping through the hoodoos, under your nose and into your ears.” I penned those words in 2015. Nearly four years later, I stared back into the canyon again.
It is done. I can shed the desert rags and take off the mountain boots. I am home, and it is done. I walked into the Arcade at around 9:00 p.m. Then, I took a seat at the...
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...
