Welcome to my blog

Hi, my name is Stan Kitchen. As a botanist, I spent a career exploring North America's Great Basin. I came to know a landscape I could trust, even when she was slow to reveal her secrets. Hidden limestone caves, ancient packrat middens, twisted bristlecone pine forests, suspended terraces marking shorelines of now vanished lakes: all had lessons to teach. Reducing the rich interplay of life and land to scientific prose was not enough. Instead, I found a more complete expression of truth in the fuzzy boundary where fact, faith, and fiction meet. From this place a three-part story of Ice-Age time travel and teen-age reckoning was born.