climate

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 [...]

September 14, 2020 6

Options

"Failure is not an option," words famously uttered by Ed Harris as NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz in the 1995 movie Apollo 13, weren't really his. Instead, they were coined during the film's creative process. [...]