I grew up on a small ranch in Montana, where the rhythms of weather, work, and wide quiet shaped the way I see the world. Some of my earliest memories are of listening to my grandmother’s stories — her 1906 trip to Yellowstone, and the tales she passed down about her father and grandfather’s journey there in 1882. Those family stories became the foundation of my lifelong fascination with the park and the people who explored it.
I publish the Works and Days Substack, home to my daily Cyber‑Zen‑Epicurean aphorisms — small meditations shaped by decades of writing, teaching, and living between Montana’s stillness and the restlessness of the present day.
My seven books include Encounters in Yellowstone, a finalist for the High Plains Book Award in literary nonfiction, and Eva at the Ranch, drawn from my great‑grandmother’s Depression‑era diaries. My essays and articles have appeared in Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, and Gallatin History Quarterly. I also contributed numerous historical articles to the Gallatin History Quarterly (previously Pioneer Museum Quarterly), helping elevate the publication’s quality during his tenure.
I’m currently seeking an agent for my memoir about growing up on a ranch and coming of age during the turbulent Sixties at the University of Montana. I’m also at work on my first adult novel.
I’m a fifth‑generation Montanan, now living in Darien, Illinois — still carrying the landscapes, stories, and voices that shaped me.