Who Should Read the Untimely Journey Trilogy? A Guide for Parents and Educators

A quiet test at first light If you want to know whether a book belongs in young hands, try this: set it next to a small morning fire, open it to a page that carries real weather, and listen. Some stories grow louder when the room is empty. Others keep a modest voice and still …

A Look at Lake Bonneville: Utah’s Ancient Superlake

The shorelines that still breathe At first light the basin keeps its secrets lightly. Like a hundred others, a story lies at my feet asking to be read. Different chapters, yet the story and the language which carries it are the same. Parallel lines mark mountain slopes near and far. Those reveal shorelines long abandoned …

What If You Could Time Travel to the Ice Age? Lessons from An Untimely Journey

I’m a collector. Who can tell what will be important and what not? I don’t have to decide. A fossil-loaded rock, a branch with spiral grain, a snake’s abandoned skin, an old notebook that has become hard to read. I keep it all. In front of the house stands a tree born of seed collected …

Paleo Science Meets Fiction: How An Untimely Journey Teaches Earth History

A morning lesson that wasn’t in the syllabus I once watched a lake breathe. It didn’t seem to be this century’s water; it carried a colder vocabulary—mist that became a shield of frost while simultaneously amplifying the call of coyotes from a distant hillside. If you stood where I stood and let the air settle, …