climate

August 30, 2023 0

“Less is more,” German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, sometime around the turn of the [...]

July 31, 2023 2

Reads

Rather than muse about the hot summer, I thought I’d post this exciting news about the success of a [...]

July 1, 2023 2

Summer

This summer day will burn hot, here and around the hemisphere. Last night the evening air chilled enough that [...]

April 4, 2023 8

Rest

Am I the only one here who can’t rest when the moon is waxing? Who sits up sipping chai at two a.m. on [...]

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 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. [...]

June 30, 2022 2

Drink

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

May 1, 2022 0

Cooling

. . . but only God can make a tree. So said American poet Joyce Kilmer in 1914, four years before his death in the battle of Ourcq southwest of Paris. [...]

April 1, 2022 5

Cleaning

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