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...

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...

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...

Yesterday, for the first time in a year, our family nature club set forth on a mission... and triumphed. But our success was bittersweet....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...