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I walked up the forest trail, leaving the Old Mine Road behind. It’s called a trail now on all the Park Service maps, but like so many of the trails in these parts it was once a road. The trail has a name, and the data buried in modern GPS devices gives it that name [...]

It strikes me often that we don’t think in geographical terms anymore. I don’t mean that sort of abstract geographical knowledge that tells us the names of the seven hills of Rome, unless of course you’re a Roman. If you are a Roman, then the names of those hills are part of the lore of [...]

For several years now I have kept the online version of the New York Times as my home page. I kept it through their adoption of interstitial ads. I kept it when they tried their “select” subscription service and blocked content seemingly at random. I kept it when they duplicated articles in different sections of [...]