http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 13. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.5/traveling-arizona-highways-in-your-dreams-and-on-the-ground In 1960, an Illinois mailman falls in love with the desert through the pages of Arizona Highways and hands on his dream -- and a piece of Mohave County --to his son and grandson. No publisher Tony Fitzpatrick autobiography Arizona Old Route 66 Mohave County family life Arizona Highways magazine road trips Arizona desert 2012-03-30T11:58:21Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.6/a-deadly-fastball-in-denver-a-review-of-the-ringer In her debut novel, The Ringer, Jenny Shank brings to life two troubled families haunted by violence in Denver. No publisher Matthew Irwin novels Jenny Shank family life The Ringer fiction Latino culture police officers 2011-04-13T22:24:01Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.16/wait-until-darkness In his debut novel, The Wilding, Benjamin Percy captures our ambiguous attitudes toward the natural world. No publisher Jodi Peterson Benjamin Percy The Wilding hunting, novels family life fiction reviews 2010-09-15T15:02:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/books-for-lonely-times When you're camped all alone in the wilderness, there is nothing like a book to bring you comfort. No publisher Emma Brown reading books family life hiking camping 2010-02-05T08:59:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/township-13-south-rage-92-west-section-35 A writer looks into the history of the people who lived on the Colorado mesa she now calls home. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Colorado farmers Western history Elizabeth Foote Foote Fields family life Paonia Western Slope 2010-02-05T09:03:48Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.9/time-to-breathe Stargazing and geology satisfy the spiritual needs of a Utah writer and teacher. No publisher Christopher Cokinos religious belief Christopher Cokinos family life stars geology 2010-02-05T09:36:19Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/361/17430 William deBuys writes poetically and thoughtfully about his own life in New Mexico in The Walk. No publisher Laura Paskus life memoirs northern New Mexico The Walk family life William deBuys rural 2010-07-21T22:02:23Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/328/16471 Westerners, like most Americans, are deeply in love with their lawns – but in an time of increasing drought, the Kentucky bluegrass is going to have to go No publisher Paul Larmer Agriculture Water Irrigation Communities in Transition Paul Larmer Bob Cook lawn mowers lawns Kentucky bluegrass hay irrigation water drought family life backyards rural life Michigan farms global warming desert land use landscaping Xeriscape native plants gardening 2010-02-05T09:34:40Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16128 A View from the Inland Empire, a new collection of essays from Stephen J. Lyons, is an honest account of coming to — and later leaving — the West, and in the process learning about home and heart and family No publisher Laura Paskus Western Culture Stephen J. Lyons essays personal history memoir coming of age stories autobiography inland Northwest Palouse region family life adult children Illinois daughters and fathers parents small towns rural life 2010-02-05T08:57:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/343/16920 Wyoming microbiologist Randy Lewis is fascinated by spiders – particularly by the remarkable silk they produce. No publisher Erin Halcomb Wyoming life scientific research Insects Science Spider- microbiology arachnids family life rural life Lewis spiders spider silk Cindy scientists dragline University of Wyoming silk gene sequencing Randy Lewis California Institute of Technology spiderwebs 2010-08-13T22:29:45Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/332/16642 We are all, too much of the time, captives of the wreck and the mistake. Can’t take our eyes off it, can’t stop thinking about it, can’t stop picking that scab. We slide into our merely negative identity — defined by what we refuse... No publisher David Oates Human Beings and Nature Sierra Nevada love gay men hiking nature parents and children Sacramento philosophy family life global warming poetry High Stephen personal history California David Oates communication Sierra Jesus Dunn 2010-09-24T23:02:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/330/16560 The author remembers a long-ago hike up Pikes Pike with her mother, who later died having no memory of that hike, or of her daughter. No publisher Diane Sylvain Human beings and nature mountains death Colorado aging Pikes Peak personal history Diane Sylvain family life Alzheimers stroke victims hikes autobiography old age memory memory impairment dementia mother-daughter issues memoir June Sylvain women 2010-10-26T22:46:15Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/339/16824 In Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming, Kevin Holdsworth describes his love for a harsh landscape in essays, poetry and fiction. No publisher Julianne Couch Human beings and nature Mormon Church childhood oil and environmental problems energy boom Kevin Holdsworth autobi Mormon nature Utah poetry fiction family life Martin’s Cove gas drilling nonfiction Wyoming writers essays memoir Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming 2010-08-26T22:05:27Z News Article