Mar 23, 2017
A Giant Work in Progress
I am writing a book. Or rather, I’m about to start writing a book. I actually have a deadline for it, because it’s under contract. My...
Mar 19, 2017
Arty-Farty Nature
If you could learn to play a musical instrument, which would you choose? Or, if you could choose one talent, which would it be? These are...
Mar 13, 2017
Simple Pleasures
While running with my husband, Frank, a few days ago (plodding might be a more accurate word but I’m a writer, and writers eschew passive...
Mar 5, 2017
The Plastic Iceberg
Yesterday, for the first time in a year, our family nature club set forth on a mission... and triumphed. But our success was bittersweet....
Jan 5, 2017
Beach Bliss
To finish the old year on a high note, and to see in 2017 as we mean to go on, we went on a family camping trip after Christmas to the...
Dec 18, 2016
Sea Fever
It was my boat-loving, ocean-going father who first told me about John Masefield's poem. My father is not much into poetry but I can see...
Nov 30, 2016
Warts and All
I am passionate about cats. I love their fluid grace and their shape pleases me. Not for me the slavish neediness of dogs, I prefer the...
Nov 17, 2016
The Avatar
I’m generally a watery person, but I’ve always liked forests and in my fourth decade of life I have especially come to appreciate the...
Nov 9, 2016
Deafened by Nature
I recently returned from a two week visit to the heart of Manu National Park in southeastern Peru. Cocha Cashu is the name of a small...
Aug 21, 2016
The Joys of Camping Wild
I have my husband to thank for introducing me to wild camping. Our first trip together, twenty-five years ago, was to somewhere in the...
