Spruce & Sagebrush

small stories from a large landscape

Essays & Poems

Short essays and poems born of the southern Rocky Mountains and deserts of the Colorado Plateau

The Right Fight

There is a time-stopping ethereal beauty to some January days in the mountains. You wake to peaks covered in untracked […]

Out of a World

Out of a world perfect for peoplea dream incarnate,with clear running streams forever forests, fertile fields,and fresh, fresh water, We made […]

The Wild Inside

A lone bald eagle stands at the muddy edge of the cold winter Colorado River, white head gleaming against the […]

220 Miles

The space station orbits just 220 miles above Earth’s surface where gravity is 90%. The space station is in freefallmoving sideways at […]

In a Blinkist

Just 50 bucks for the Blinkist app The ultimate tool for smarter learning that boils down booksof artful sentences and […]

Defensible Spaces

As I gaze out the passenger window, chauffeured by my 15-year-old, I admire the deep cabernet of this year’s autumn […]

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