Continue Reading Water is the Shovel of the Shore Need a break from the tumult of this month, this year, from politics, war, pandemics? Never mind the nail biting over the…
Continue Reading Gifts!Gifts!Gifts! The season is upon us. Gifts needed. Gifts hoped for. Gifts dreaded. What to get? Where to get it? How to escape…
Continue Reading Art (?) on the Road: SENSORIO at Paso Robles, CA. I had no clue what to expect for Sensorio. Some sort of light show, Fields of Light, the kids said. Found ourselves…
Continue Reading “The Farm” Leave it to my boys to find a place that combines (almost) all of their mother’s delights: Nature! Daily Wildlife! Hiking…
Continue Reading The Drive Field trip, anyone? I assume you were not crazy enough to drive 1700 miles (2735 km) for Thanksgiving week, leave that to…
Continue Reading Kestrel at Rest The sonnet below was written 135 years ago, and none, none of the beauty that it describes has changed – a…
Continue Reading “Music and Mayhem” There are days when the universe throws a gift into your lap, or has it flutter into your inbox, as the case…
Continue Reading Reclaiming Nature: Revelations at the Reser. “The most obvious contribution to social change that literature can make is simply to inform people of something they know nothing about….
Continue Reading A Mycologist’s Dream. Walk with me. I know, we’ve done this loop in the State Park at my doorstep many times before. Yet every year…
Continue Reading Next on the Right-wing chopping block: The Indian Child Welfare Act. As I write this on November 8th, the outcome of the midterm elections is uncertain – and I am a nervous wreck….
