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 [...]
May 31, 2023 12 Finish The heartbreaking 2016 Antarctic crossing of Henry Worsley, who came within 126 miles of his goal, recently [...]
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 [...]
February 28, 2023 2 Avoid Years ago I heard author and activist Rick Bass speak at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle. He read [...]
January 30, 2023 0 Linger What we learn on Literary Bird Walks: "The blackbird is involved in what I know." — Wallace Stevens [...]
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 1, 2022 0 Parents A tough time for parents. So said Buddhist instructor Sylvia Boorstein in a dharma class over Memorial Day weekend. Not that it has ever been easy. [...]