Bees: the Good, the Bad, and the Unsustainable?
Charming though they are, are honey bees actually bad?
Obituary for a Much Loved Cat
Our lovely cat died this morning. Was playing with the dog, then suddenly yowling in pain. He’d “thrown a blood clot.”
Immigration and Passing
I’ve just finished reading The Line Becomes a River: dispatches from the border, by Francisco Cantu. It brings to my mind a short piece I wrote a few years ago, raising the question of racism in anti-immigrant talk.
That Was Then: Whaling
Recollections of a long ago camping trip that passed through a working whaling station.
The Little Things That Run the World*
It’s time for a paradigm shift in gardening, towards using native plants that support the ecosystems around us.
Snake Stories
A California trip yielded a fascinating and unusual landscape and fascinating and unusual stories.
Rewilding in India, and in our own backyards
A fascinating article, Second Nature by Dorothy Wickenden in The New Yorker, triggers a cascade of thinking about practical conservation wherever we live
Lawn, lawn everywhere? No!
A realtor suggests lawn, missing the point entirely. Even after being told.
Reading The Premonition: Michael Lewis knows how to tell a story
Absolutely riveting, The Premonition is the story about people trying to prevent needless deaths from a pandemic they saw coming.
Jaws that bite
Stories about landing dangerous mako sharks bring to mind Alaska stories about the dangers of fishing for halibut