Old Roads, New Stories: Social Studies by Rob Carney
A Literary Series y kid is 12, and he’s reading Frankenstein, and he’s down to the final ten pages, the part where Victor’s giving a speech to Captain Walton’s crew—“You cowards!”—because they want...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Addition + Subtraction by Rob Carney
A Literary Series f there’s a Nobel Prize for mountains, it should go to Mt. Rainier. Before I tell you why, though, here’s something I learned about Tempe, Arizona. My friend Brian was explaining...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Electrical Engineering by Rob Carney
A Literary Series There are mornings, as the sun comes up, when the overcast travels the Wasatch Front, moving south to north in a long wide line, like the clouds are almost ranging. Backlit that...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Meteorology by Rob Carney
A Literary Series here’s a writer, Brady Udall, I figure a ton of people already love or at least have heard about. He’s good. He’s from out West here—northern Arizona, southern Utah—and in his...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Zoology by Rob Carney
A Literary Series y neighbor Mike has added an extra ecosystem to his yard. Nothing elaborate, just a daily pile of birdseed next to some groundcover bushes and vines. But it brings all sorts of...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Music History I by Rob Carney
A Literary Series he first time I heard The Grateful Dead was on KOMO AM 1000, and I was hooked at age nine. It’s an improbable origin story since KOMO was usually the source of Sonics games, news,...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Music History II by Rob Carney
A Literary Series wo things happened that got me thinking. This was during the Get Lit! Literary Festival, and I was staying at the Red Lion at the Park, standing out back on one of the...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Linguistics by Rob Carney
A Literary Series made a quick stop at 7-11 this morning to grab… what…? A Kind Bar, a Power Bar (oh, marketing, you’re so ridiculous), and a second cup of coffee, and at the counter I said, “This...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Political Science by Rob Carney
A Literary Series ne summer the people of Kalispell had too much paint. Driving into town, I saw a car slap-dashed with yellow—must have been 200 cartoon lemons—and a homemade signboard bolted on...
View ArticleCurrents: Intriguing Series on Terrain.org
Have you noticed Terrain.org’s new Currents section? We’ve gathered our longstanding columns by writers such as Lauret Savoy, David Rothenberg, and Kathryn Miles with our weekly series by writers and...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Sex/Personality by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Take the A) Sex Quiz, B) Personality Test, or C) Quick Break from Busywork: Would you rather be a cheetah or an antelope? Would you rather be an orca or a wolf? If you answered...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Environmental Studies by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Washington: Washington’s state bird is the goldfinch, but as a kid growing up there I always thought that seemed wrong. Robins you saw everywhere, especially after rain, hopping...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Architecture by Rob Carney
A Literary Series m not an architect. Not unless you count reading The Fountainhead in high school, and you shouldn’t. But poets do build things. Sometimes poorly, sometimes well, and I’m betting...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Archaeology by Rob Carney
A Literary Series ho knew the badgers of Utah were so advanced? Not you. It’s no use pretending you did. No, the only people who knew this were Mike Noel and I. I’ll tell you about my own...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Poetry by Rob Carney
A Literary Series Coyote’s Daughter, Raven’s Son The poem is a shapeshifter animal, a trickster. One minute, it’s a sailfish. The next, it’s a hook. One night, it’s an alley cat, urgent to get...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Early Childhood Development by Rob Carney
A Literary Series after Christopher Smart For I will consider my six-year-old, for he is the laughter of the living God, duly and daily laughing. For at the last glance at the glory of God in...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Architecture II by Rob Carney
A Literary Series he newest building on my campus isn’t good. The inside design is like an airport terminal, and the elevators are a crapshoot; it’s anyone’s guess from hour to hour if they’ll...
View ArticleLetter to America by Rob Carney
Click button above to hear Carney read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Poetic Justice This happened on November 9th in Salt Lake City on the corner of 500 North and...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Marine Biology by Rob Carney
A Literary Series s a kid growing up in Washington, I had a giant admiration for Slick Watts. “Downtown” Freddie Brown too, of course, swishing rainbow jumpers from deep. If there had been a...
View ArticleOld Roads, New Stories: Marine Biology II by Rob Carney
A Literary Series for J2, “Granny,” the oldest member of the Puget Sound orcas 1911 to 2016 Because all orcas have a way with words, decoding their 10,000 whistles is a lot of fun. We sail out...
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