About - Front Porch Journal

I’m Josh.

I write Front Porch Journal, where I discuss nature, books, wild animals, relationships, mythology, podcasts, food, deep time, travel—whatever interests me, which is just about everything.

I started the newsletter in 2021, after my diagnosis with chronic myeloid leukemia. I’m kicking ass these days. As Charles Bukowski said, you have to die a few times before you can really live.

I reside in the Adirondack mountains of upstate New York. I hunt for food. I swim in frozen lakes. I run many miles every year. (My next big rip is running across the Grand Canyon, twice, in one day.)

All my work is meant to entertain you, edify you, and make you laugh and think and maybe even cry.

Art for Front Porch Journal is made by Nick Peria.

Best,

Josh.

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Essays and stories about bears and wolves and myth and dreaming big. Just one more writer striving to make fine sentences and live wildly, passionately, and unapologetically true to his nature.

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Joshua Ross

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Creator of Front Porch Journal, cancer survivor who runs ultra distances, a man in progress with work published in Orion Magazine and High Country News, plus some local zines. Average is the enemy here. We live life to the fullest.