It happened faster than a car accident. Kato, my 110 pound German Shepherd, and I were mountain biking below a ridge where I lived for eleven years in Oregon. I paused to straddle my bike and take a swig of water before beginning a long climb up a logging road. He wandered off into the […]

The Pulitzers were announced yesterday. As it happened, I’d read the books that won in the two most headlined categories. The fiction winner was “All the Light We Cannot See” by Andrew Doerr. The non-fiction nod went to “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” by Elizabeth Kolbert. Kolbert’s book began as an article for The New Yorker […]

Intriguing and disturbing news out of the Amazon this week, thanks to an eye-opening report in Wired. There have been repeated attempts by denialists, over the past decade in particular, to push the notion that increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will allow plants to flourish ever more prodigiously. Proponents rarely have included research showing […]

Over the weekend I had the intellectually invigorating experience of interviewing British Columbia’s first Green Party MLA, Andrew Weaver.  For those in the States who may not be familiar with the designation, MLA stands for Member of the Legislative Assembly.  Weaver was touring the Kootenay Mountain region on a listen and learn tour.  He was also […]

Often I’ll go to YouTube when I’m training. That’s how I ended up looking at b & w footage of the Beatles more than fifty years ago.  I might have been prompted by a story in The New York Times that I’d just read.  It raised the question, once again, of whether California could possibly sustain its growth […]