Birthday

Today is John Dos Passos’s birthday! His physical frame may be gone, but his words, his spirit–they endure. “In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of […]

An Eye-Minded People

In 1936, in the pages of Esquire, John Dos Passos wrote, “In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans…From being a word-minded people […]

The Nature of Our Times Publishes

Publication day! Today, Paloma Press released a print edition of The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders. This anthology features 210 voices […]

The Nature of Our Times

News for those who love Nature: On September 18, Paloma Press will release a print edition of The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other […]

In Praise of the Apollo Program

One of the last things my grandfather John Dos Passos wrote was an ode to the Apollo Program. It’s so relevant, reminding us what we can do when we overcome […]

Save NOAA

Please see my new editorial in The Hill defending NOAA’s budget. In this short space, I’ve focused on precipitation research, but there are legions more topics in weather and climate […]

Farewell to Hotel Oloffson

Rolling Stone reports that Haiti’s Hotel Oloffson has burned down. My grandfather John Dos Passos stayed there in 1948 with Dawn Powell and the Given family, at a low point […]

Tour of Duty

Reading John Dos Passos’s Tour of Duty, a fine work that has fallen off the map, I came across this description of Nazi mastermind Goering on trial at Nuremberg. Echoes […]