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  • Dear Jesse: I Want To Eat My Stepchildren. Is This Normal?
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 12 23 at 11:33:13 pm | 16 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8Re

    Q: Dear Jesse: My girlfriend has several children by a previous marriage. We get along well, but from time to time I find myself possessed of a desire to kill them and roast them up. I think most men do. Not only would this provide me with needed

    … (continues)

  • Though leaving the Sierra Club was wrenching,
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 11 21 at 3:23:19 pm | 7 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x3Ne

    Though leaving the Sierra Club was wrenching, Carl Pope soon found a new position that made better use of his strengths.… (continues)

  • Pulp Fiction: A Screenplay By Orson Scott Card
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 09 07 at 2:27:04 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0ge

    7. INT. APARTMENT BUILDING HALLWAY - MORNING

    Elder Enos: Still I must say; play with matches, you get burned.

    Elder Jed: Might you clarify that?

    Elder Enos: One simply does not wash the feet of Mosias Wallace’s youngest wife.

    Elder Jed: Surely

    … (continues)

  • The Ghost Plums of Evolution
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 06 01 at 10:11:42 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x5Td

    As long as I’m digging old impromptu poems out of comments from years back and giving them pride of place, I might as well do this one, which was in a comment here. Which post also provides context in case you don’t know right offhand what a

    … (continues)

  • Joshua Tree NP in 2020
    By Chris Clarke on 2010 08 20 at 9:15:57 pm | 3 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x0ob

    Cartoon by Laura Cunningham.

    PArk hemmed into about a square meter, wildlife crowded into a tiny enclosure with industrial development all around… (continues)

  • The Gettysburg Address, by Sarah Palin
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 26 at 10:35:03 pm | 18 comments

    Four score and seven, eight, years ago — it was some time ago, anyway, in the days of our forefathers. And the forefathers… they brought forth in this American country a new nation, America. America’s life began at the moment it was conceived in

    … (continues)

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I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.

I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.

About Coyote Crossing

This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.

My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.

* May not actually equal 1000

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