John’s latest essay, “On Going to My Sixtieth High School Reunion, or What I Think About While Running Uphill” will soon be published in the tenth anniversary issue (Vol. 16) of The Dark Mountain Project. The essay is a meditation on aging, adolescent selves, authoritarian rulers, environmental super-villains, the dinosaurs who were too big to get on Noah’s Ark, and getting together with old classmates in the afterlife.