- A gray cat slinks past a wooden house. There’s something a little intimidating attempting to describe.
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“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.” -Charles Bukowski
In a perfect world, my writing acts as a translator for the human experience. With every piece, I strive to give voice to emotional truth. Fiction and non-fiction; singular and universal– the stories that thrill me are the ones that breathe fresh understanding into complex and profound relationships. I seek to explore a world where our connection to one another, our natural world, and that we can not yet know is distilled, amplified with the result deeply felt. I hope the people, places, and raw wonders that you find here inspire you in a meaningful way.
Our story begins at the foothills of eastern Himalaya, in a tightly packed landscape known as the “Chicken Neck of India’ where wild Asian elephants once roamed freely...
Out from the trees across the field rises a noise I have only heard in movies and dreams: the resounding trumpet of an elephant. From a patch of trees directly to our right,...
Once upon a time, a little boy dreamt of being an astronaut, then Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, and from there Han Solo, commanding the Millennium Falcon.
Elephants, horses, camels, elephants, oxen, dogs, mules… From the dawn of time, humans and certain animals have developed a complex synergy, a reliance on one another that...
With their natural habitats dwindling, the elephants are changing their migration patterns to feed on what is now their most reliable food source: cultivated crops. In small...
“Here is a story,” she had told us a few days before. It was raining then as well; monsoon season and the parks are closed to all but the forest patrol, mahouts, the elephants,...
In a raw world that seems to bleed everyday with shriveling resources, human tragedy, and environmental ruin. Where every moment with a press of a button or a swipe of a screen,...
Fear and fascination are often two sides of the same mind, and in an internal standoff, one will ultimately prevail. Even as fear fights a robust battle within me, fascination...
Like all worthy quests, my fascination with Mongolia begins with a story. A story that turns itself like polished stone within my fingers. A tale I replayed so often since...
We’ve been waiting for snow for weeks so we can migrate to the winter camp where the reindeer herd will have enough food and Lena’s family can settle in with their new infant....
June 30, 2015: Time is running out. Day five of a weeklong expedition and the too-swift current still carries considerable risk. The Aegean Sea is a magical turquoise that...
The fire has gone out and the temperature has dipped to –20ЉC degrees inside our simple, but effective, shelter – the Nenets’ winter chum, built from layers of reindeer...
At the Sun Valley Road Rally’s No Speed Limit Open Road event. Driver Scott Riedl, with this writer in the passenger seat, pulled some serious Gs in “Insane Mode” to exceed...
....and, of course, the wild ride that is Sonia herself, from holding court at the tailor shop to sharing the remnants of her mother’s scarf with shaking hands, cutting...
L.A. Times is a cultural slice of a particular modern reality that plays with a breadth of neuroticism and familiarity. “I think there are certain expectations when a woman...
Typically when you see Rebecca Rusch's name attached to Red Bull Media House film you think: action adventure, drive to win, blood, sweat and tears. But wait, here is Rebecca...
It was a stormy morning near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and a young Adam West (recently discharged from the army, and trying to raise money to get to Europe) was dutifully...
By the time I stepped foot into his Santa Monica office, I had come to new layers understanding: Oliver Stone is not a “have it handed to him” producer of wildly successful...
It was 1975 and the nation needed something to laugh about. After a decade fraught with riots, assassinations, political turmoil, and a controversial war, America had pretty...
Jimmy walked five dark blocks to the boardwalk alone. Unlocked the gate that led to the pier. Oil and rust, fresh paint and turpentine; smells he could depend on. Cool steel,...
Once, I scraped a dead bird off our sidewalk. Its wing was broken, and brittle claws all clenched up. The beak had dropped open, unhinged. You could see its bird tongue. Eyes...
Right here. A one-bedroom apartment six blocks from the beach where Ruby can hear the ocean through a cracked window at the quietest hour of the morning. Right here is a slip...
However, like many gifted writers, the voyage was actually fraught with the kind of challenge, rejection, and failure not visible from a jacket inset. If asked, Maksik might...
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