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Charles Bowden reading an excerpt from "Blood Orchid"

This story is four interviews, with neighbors and friends, about the current political situation in the United States. I was feeling fairly frazzled and wanted to talk to other people about how they felt, so I started close to home. The photo above is an original silk screen by Leia Bell, for sale at Ken Sanders’ Rare Books in Salt Lake City, Utah. I plan to keep posting stories for a while, so if you’d like to donate please press this button: Donate

My thoughts on our current situation.

Reports from the Sonoran Desert, sixty miles south of Tucson, in March of 2005.

A trip to Afghanistan in November of 2001.

My first overseas story.

Swim lessons at the Sandwich Aquatic Center in Sandwich, New Hampshire.

An attempt to forget who I am.

a short stint in commercial radio

My first story for This American Life.

A story about trying to make a home during hard times.

A radio play about how we, as a culture, deal with death and dying.

A canoe trip down the Green River, from the top in Wyoming to the confluence with the Colorado River in southern Utah.

A tragic day in the Wasatch Mountains.

A cultural history of the Great Salt Lake Desert.