The End Begins
Our emerging dystopia brings memories of reading The Day of the Triffids to the surface. The parallels are powerful.
Our emerging dystopia brings memories of reading The Day of the Triffids to the surface. The parallels are powerful.
“Why are you taking the dead leaves into your garden?” he asked.
A passion for dead leaves? Read More »
Charming though they are, are honey bees actually bad?
Bees: the Good, the Bad, and the Unsustainable? Read More »
Our lovely cat died this morning. Was playing with the dog, then suddenly yowling in pain. He’d “thrown a blood clot.”
Obituary for a Much Loved Cat Read More »
A New Yorker story recalls memories of muskox field work in Alaska
Are They Like Ducks? Read More »
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.
Immigration and Passing Read More »
Recollections of a long ago camping trip that passed through a working whaling station.
That Was Then: Whaling Read More »
It’s time for a paradigm shift in gardening, towards using native plants that support the ecosystems around us.
The Little Things That Run the World* Read More »
A California trip yielded a fascinating and unusual landscape and fascinating and unusual stories.
A fascinating article, Second Nature by Dorothy Wickenden in The New Yorker, triggers a cascade of thinking about practical conservation wherever we live
Rewilding in India, and in our own backyards Read More »
A realtor suggests lawn, missing the point entirely. Even after being told.
Lawn, lawn everywhere? No! Read More »