bwoodward4Jun 12, 2022Landscape and MeaningI had an unexpected lesson the other day about the significance of landscape. I was intending to write about the impossibility of...
bwoodward4Jun 1, 2022Local at the BorderI had pictured the U.S.-Mexico border as a line through the desert from San Diego to El Paso and then down the Rio Grande to the Gulf of...
bwoodward4May 21, 2022Grappling with the Mississippi DeltaIt’s attractive farm country, like the San Joaquin Valley, but with more trees and no Sierras on the eastern horizon, and Nebraska, but...
bwoodward4May 19, 2022Embodied in the OutdoorsWell the Mississippi Delta brought me up short. To write another of these mini-essays about people’s relationship to the Delta would mean...