Appetites

My personal Substack

Passages for re-membering and belonging to place.

The Westrn is a collective of professional writers and journalists focused on storytelling in the outdoor space. We publish a quarterly 32-page newspaper serving the outdoor community as part of our Substack subscription.

My personal Substack

Good Record: A home for music, musings and more from Dave Simonett

"We live in this flat, blue basin. We and the meadow things, my townspeople.." William Carlos Williams

Dive into the fashion circular economy: resale, repair, reuse, recycling.

Plant advocacy through writing, photography & podcasting

Books, art, music, movies

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

A year's worth of thousand-word, topical essays concerning Modern Times.

Mini essays, diary entries, recipes and eating notes from author of Small Fires, An Epic in the Kitchen.

Essays and stories about bears and wolves and myth and dreaming big. Just one more writer striving to make fine sentences and live wildly, passionately, and unapologetically true to his nature.

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

Rough-hewn ponderings on woodsmoke, fried squirrel, dirt roads, creek water, generational curses, and living in the Anthropocene

Distilled moments of presence in nature

Email newsletter from Chris La Tray, member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, author of "Becoming Little Shell" from Milkweed Editions (8/20/2024), and 2023–2025 Montana Poet Laureate.