Other Writing


John started his third Journal of the Plague Year in April 2023. He posts new entries on his “Aftermath” blog every Monday.

John’s second Journal of the Plague Year, written from September 2021 through October 2022, can be found here: “Ghost Dance” blog.

John’s first Journal of the Plague Year, written from March 2020 through March 2021, can be found here: “End Notes” blog.

Blog


Anthologies

John’s stories and essays have been anthologized in the following collections:


Periodicals

  • Weekly column, Boise Weekly, 2013-2015

  • “End Notes” column, Idaho Mountain Express, 2006-2011

  • “A Few Rocks from the Box: A Meditation,” High Desert Journal issue 12, Fall 2010

  • “When a Cold Place Turns Hot,” High Desert Journal issue 6, Fall 2007

  • “The Truth and Other Howlers,” Montana Journalism Review, Summer 2007

  • “When a Cold Place Turns Hot” and Interview, Silk Road Review issue 2, Spring 2007

  • “The Best Seats in the House” (book review), Idaho Yesterdays, Fall/Winter 2006

  • “Son of Banshee” (fiction), Ronde Dance, August 2006

  • “Insulation Out the Door,” The Bear Deluxe Magazine, Spring-Summer 2006

  • “Burning Willows,” High Desert Journal issue 2, Fall 2005

  • “Exiles in the Now” (book review), Idaho Yesterdays, Summer 2005

  • “Black on White” (Lost Trail), Skiing Magazine, March/April 2002

  • “Conjuring Kiki,” Skiing Magazine, October 2001

  • “Adventure in Andorra,” Skiing Magazine, March/April 2001

  • “Safe Harbor” (Schweitzer Mountain), Skiing Magazine, January 2000

  • “Red’s Retro Charm” (Red Mountain, B.C.), Mountain Sports and Living, Spring 1999

  • “Searching for Truth and Beauty in the Sawtooths” Skiing Magazine, November 1998

  • “The Slide of a Lifetime,” Mountain Sports and Living, September 1998

  • “Bluegrass and Backcountry” (Telluride), Skiing Magazine, March/April 1998

  • “The Rescuers” (Sun Valley Ski Patrol), Skiing Magazine, February 1998

  • “Bigger’s Better” (Big Mountain, Montana), Snow Country, November 1997

  • “Greenland Dreams,” Snow Country, February/March 1997

  • “The Unknown Okanagan,” Snow Country, January 1997

  • “Skiing the Volcanoes,” Snow Country, March 1996

  • “Climbing to the Steeps in the Sawtooths,” Snow Country, December 1995

  • “Adventures in the City of Skis” (Whistler/Blackcomb), Skiing Magazine, December 1995

  • “Jumping In” (New Zealand), Skiing Magazine, February 1995

  • “When Destinations Die,” Northern Lights, Winter 1994

  • “Schweitzer Hits the Big Time,” Snow Country, December 1992

  • “On the Lakes and Mountains of Up-Country Idaho,” Travel and Leisure, May 1992

  • “View from the North” column, Idaho Mountain Express, 1988-1992

  • “Mule Packer Memories,” Travel and Leisure, October 1991

  • “A Good Life Over a Good Living” (McCall, Idaho), Snow Country, July/August 1991

  • “Of Men and Mackinaw,” Wildlife Conservation, March/April 1991

  • “Return of the Native,” Wildlife Conservation, September/October 1990

  • “Cougar: The All-American Predator,” Wildlife Conservation, March/April 1990

  • “The News of Our Lives,” The Redneck Review, Spring 1990

  • “Thailand’s Highland Treasure,” Travel and Leisure, February 1990

  • “Report from Sawtooth Valley” column, Boise Magazine, 1988-1990

  • “Thai Time,” Travel and Leisure, November 1989

  • “Who’ll Save the Land?” Travel and Leisure, March 1989

  • “Water,” Sun Valley Magazine, Summer 1983

  • “The Trustfunder” (fiction), Sun Valley Magazine, Fall/Winter 1982/83

  • “A Country Gothic” (fiction), Sawtooth: A Journal of the Imagination, No. 4, 1979

  • “So You Wanna Be A Cowgirl” (fiction), Fasching 78, December 1977

  • “Scenes from a Trip to the Sawtooths,” Sun Valley Magazine, September 1976

  • “The Tire” (fiction), Harvard Advocate, Spring 1973

  • “Diary of a Wilderness Ranger,” Naturalist, Autumn 1971


Plays

Cowboy Dreams
Produced Spring 1994, Lewis-Clark State College
Produced December 1992, Albertson College of Idaho

Nightwind
Produced May 1991, Albertson College of Idaho
Produced May 1986, Montana Masquers Playwriting Festival