Rain, rain, go away…or not

by | Mar 19, 2010 | Featured Articles, The Naturalist's Life

  Thoughts and consequences of a Catalina rain event It is late January.  I’m sitting in my dry and warm office, seeing the first (and probably only) rays of sun in the last few days hit the soaked ground, thinking “there are actually shadows out there.”  As I’m...

Cat Myths Exposed

by | Mar 18, 2010 | For Animal Lovers

  Ah!  Life in a small house with four indoor cats.  I often wonder, What were we thinking?  I can remember every step of the way, every logical and well-thought out step, and make sense of them individually.  It is the end-result what doesn’t make full sense. ...

Introducing the Naturalist Life

by | Mar 14, 2010 | The Naturalist's Life

This is a blog about nature, particularly the nature of Catalina Island (where I currently live), but it also includes essays and photographs from other places I have worked in, visited or where I have encountered stories and events of the natural kind.  These include...

Naked Ladies

by | Mar 11, 2010 | Random Thoughts

3:30 in the morning and I’ve been awake and tossing since at least 2. A stream of thoughts come through my mind in pieces, almost at random. Things about work, about people, about the upcoming vacation, things to do. Nothing sticks there for long, mostly because I don’t want to start thinking about them too much. Otherwise, I’ll be awake the rest of the night. However, they keep coming up, like bubbles in a pool of molasses.

Doing What I Love

by | Mar 10, 2010 | Random Thoughts

I love writing.  I get to do quite a bit of it at work (the day time job thing I do) but certainly not enough and not the “right” kind, the kind that gets me excited, that brings out the best thoughts, that tickles the funny bone and squeezes the tear glands.  At work...