It's been an unusually cold & wet & SNOWY winter in the Big Bend. Here are some glimpses from the beginning of the season....   more »

Then I’d go to bed, listen for the wind and the sounds of birds settling in for the night, bands of javelina roaming through my camp, and I’d smell the occasional skunk or fox. Many nights I would wake up – sometime around 2 am – and watch the stars and the moon, pick out the constellations that I know, and very often see shooting stars streak across the night sky. I wondered why parents don’t teach their children to live like this for a while. by Dori Ramsay    more »

Suddenly, I hear crashing on my left, and sure enough, there is a big bear running through the woods away from me. It’s my bear! She stops and turns and sits on her haunches and looks, forgive me, just like the Hamm’s Beer commercial bear. What is she doing? Why did she stop? by Dori Ramsay    more »

We asked you, every one of our readers, to enter our first annual writing contest: Spring Break 101. The call went out: “Tell us a story about your most interesting spring break experience ever – fond, funny, dark, anything in between, from here or elsewhere - in 101 words or fewer!”   more »

When I joined the March, I stood still, 30 people across, for 15 minutes before we moved, and then it took 2 1⁄2 hours to walk 10 blocks because there were so many people... It was peaceful and filled with a cross section of America’s young, old, veterans, mothers, students, all sorts of people who don’t agree on a lot of other issues, but do agree that we need to get out of Iraq. by Dori Ramsay    more »

Suddenly, we top out and we are at the crest of the world. We are alone on a giant Mesa that goes for miles and miles. No sign of humanity or civilization. Great mountains in Mexico shimmer in the distance. by Dori Ramsay    more »