2018

Please enjoy this festive collection of Christmas carols, perfect to amuse (or annoy) the birder in your life. Cactus Wren (Jingle Bells) Downy Woodpecker (Frosty the Snowman) Do You See […]

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Looking to see me in person in October and November? Here are your chances! San Gabriel Valley Pride Pasadena Central Park, October 13, 11 am-6 pm Be sure to come […]

Tech Is Not The Enemy

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It’s such a common refrain that it’s hardly ever questioned: Technology is the enemy of the outdoors. If you give a kid a smartphone, the kid will stay in their […]

Hemingway and Bulwer-Lytton

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It’s one of the most entrenched rules of 20th and 21st-century writing: The fewer words you use, the better. Terse prose is good prose, so common wisdom goes; stripping words […]

Cats and Women

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Considering how many cat photos there are, the internet sure hates cats. “Cats are evil” and “I hate cats” are common attitudes that rarely face any pushback; even among cat […]

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It’s that time again: Let’s see what I’ve been talking doing around the web. Back in November on YA Wednesdays, I shared my Veteran’s Day reading list rounding up my […]

Sanatoria

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When I’m sick I always find myself thinking about our society’s attitudes towards illness and the treatment thereof. Much has changed over the past century. The 1920s and early 1930s […]

Experience

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I was out herping with a local old-timer, looping side-blotched lizards with dental-floss slipknots. Our goal was to capture at least three males. We captured seven lizards, all female. Some […]