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January 30, 2023 0

Linger

What we learn on Literary Bird Walks: "The blackbird is involved in what I know." — Wallace Stevens [...]

January 5, 2023 0

Good

Three pieces of good news. And loving what you love. [...]

October 23, 2022 0

Spooky

The subject lines filling my email inbox have been spooky indeed. “Scary Movie Season,” [...]

October 1, 2022 2

Autumn is a special time of year, when a smattering of wood-warblers from east of the Rockies wander to the Pacific coast. And so I and my friend and birding partner David go looking for some of these accidentals. [...]

August 31, 2022 2

Survivors

As hidden stories are revealed, they tend to smack us right between the eyes. So the work of writers and [...]

July 31, 2022 6

Voice

The rare-bird reports reach my phone from Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s citizen-science app, ebird, [...]

June 30, 2022 2

Drink

The parable reads like a riddle: two raccoons walked into a yard, looking for a drink . . . (For an immediate [...]

April 1, 2022 5

Cleaning

I was going to write about spring cleaning today, as (per writer Candor McNair) “dust bunnies are [...]

March 9, 2022 2

Hydropolitics

(Profits from my book sales this month—and for the foreseeable future—will benefit UNICEF, specifically [...]

June 27, 2021 2

Refuge

“Dog Days are approaching; you must, therefore, make both hay and haste while the Sun shines, for when old Sirius takes command of the weather, he is such an unsteady, crazy dog, there is no dependence upon him.” [...]

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