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If you like what you read, check out my new prose section, with a sampling of a few things I've written over the years, but that don't really fit here in the blog. Hope you enjoy.

It feels peculiar—unnatural, even—these days of not working 50, 60 hours a week. Of not getting up and shining shoes, of putting on a...

1. Nutella 2. Multiple class V+ whitewater rivers (with no undercut rocks) 3. The Appalachian Mountains 4. The Outer Banks 5. Hundreds of...

Look, I’m not sure how often this gets read, but if it is at all we might as well be honest with each other, right? Authenticity isn’t a...

(An idea shamelessly borrowed by the fine folks at Esquire.) I learned more about the human condition in the six or so years I waited...

It is illegal to use cruise control in South Carolina. To what other conclusion can one come? It is indeed the explanation that makes...

I’m a live-in-the-moment guy. I’m good with summer. It should be hot. I’m good with winter. It should be cold. Fall should be crisp and...

(By the way, this was posted elsewhere originally; I’ve re-posted here for posterity in advance of Upper Gauley season next weekend and...

Think Progress just published their take on the Elk River chemical spill in Kanawha County, West Virginia. It's a fine read, I suppose....

You may have heard that here in Charleston, West Virginia, we experienced a major chemical spill into our water supply. We were initially...

As is normal for this time of year, in the afterglow of my annual trip to Haiti, I’m doing all sorts of reflecting. It was my third time...