Natural Stories
John ClaytonNature is story; stories are our nature
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"I worked thif land"
Roman orators in a still from the 1979 movie Monty Python's Life of Brian (via montypython.fandom.com)
“Where-ever an Englishman sets his foot, all that he hath is the King’s,” one of the governor’s allies proclaimed. Except that this was...
Why we’re all Tarzan
Cover of The War Chief by Edgar Rice Burroughs
When I was a kid, my parents kept me away from Tarzan. Their reasons were practical: they didn’t want me trying to jump out of our backyard trees.
Perhaps also ideological: As liberals, they...
How to make road trips great again
The logo for the TV show “The Great American Road Trip” misleadingly implies people driving on roads (https://greatamericanroadtrip.org/)
Corruption? I was dismayed. Surely there was more to the story of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy...
The quest to find out why things are the way they are
Writer at work (Mary George photo)
When David Stauffer commented a few weeks ago that instead of interviewing other writers, I should be the subject of an interview here, I at first demurred. It sounded too egocentric. But Dave is a Foundi...
As American as baseball and national parks
The amphitheater near the Madison Information Station in Yellowstone (2017 Magicpiano photo courtesy Wikimedia)
A week ago Saturday—the day news broke that Major League Baseball (MLB) and Trump administration officials had scouted potentia...
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John Clayton is the author of books including Natural Rivals, The Cowboy Girl, and Wonderlandscape. His weekly newsletter Natural Stories tells stories about people in nature.
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