A man with dark hair and fair skin smiling outdoors next to a tree during sunset.

At Ghost Ranch

writer and teacher;

logophile and number enthusiast;

etymological memoirist and magpie poet.

The four conditions of happiness (told to me by Tim Taylor, according to Camus, who adapted them from one of Poe’s stories):

  1. life in the open air

  2. love for and from another human being

  3. freedom from ambition

  4. creation