In the late afternoon I drive out from Baker (population 68), cross U.S. Route 50, and take the long and lonely road running north towards Gandy, Utah, and the 12,000-foot-high Deep Creek Range. The gravel road tracks the eastern edge of the Moriah Range through the Snake Valley, on past an occasional ranch or ramshackle […]

A friend once likened boredom to “driving Interstate 80 across Nebraska,” but that’s never been my experience. I’ve crossed the Great Plains from east to west at least thirty times, riding the Interstates and secondary highways out of the humid Midwest and into the arid West. I love the transition from one ecology and aesthetic […]

According to Wikipedia, a “sabbatical (from Latin: sabbaticus, from Greek : sabbatikos, from Hebrew: shabbat ​[i.e., Sabbath ], literally a “ceasing”) is a rest from work, or a break, often lasting from two months to a year.” However, College at Brockport policy states that the objective of a sabbatical leave is not to provide faculty with a “rest from work,” […]