Why This Journal Exists

A book has to commit to what made it in. A lot doesn’t make it in — a dead-end lead, a source that didn’t check out, a detail too small for a chapter but too interesting to throw away.

This journal is where that material will go as it happens: writing notes, research in progress, the occasional photograph, the slow work of preparing for whatever the next journey turns out to be.

Nothing here gets held to a lower standard than the book. It just gets to be smaller, and more in-progress.

More entries will appear here as there’s something real to put in them.