Archive - Taking Bearings

Transforming Tacoma

Considering bygone years, hidden from view

Jan 29 •

Adam M. Sowards

Finding Grant McConnell and the North Cascades

Loving a place and becoming an applied political scientist

Jan 22 •

Adam M. Sowards

No Clean First Drafts

How I found writing advice from Barry Lopez in a Utah archive

Jan 15 •

Adam M. Sowards

Who Are We? Where Are We?

David Greenwood explores these lifelong questions

Jan 15 •

Adam M. Sowards

For ourselves and nature

Jan 8 •

Adam M. Sowards

Finishing the Year with Susan Fenimore Cooper

The wintry conclusion of Rural Hours

Jan 1 •

Adam M. Sowards

December 2024

Some of what I've seen

Dec 25, 2024 •

Adam M. Sowards

A Monumental Sadness and a Paradoxical Legal Tradition

Indigenous peoples and the Antiquities Act

Dec 18, 2024 •

Adam M. Sowards

A Love Affair with Landscape

Writer and teacher Steve Edwards

Dec 15, 2024 •

Adam M. Sowards

Some books that made my year

Dec 11, 2024 •

Adam M. Sowards

Don't Forget Humanity (or the Humanities)

Loren Eiseley on "The Illusion of the Two Cultures"

Dec 4, 2024 •

Adam M. Sowards

November 2024

Cycles and Seasons

A Northwest holiday road trip prompts some thoughts

Nov 27, 2024 •

Adam M. Sowards

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