Dec 13, 2015
Enchanted by Cocha Cashu
When people think of the tropical rainforest, I believe the picture most have in their minds is of trees. Lots and lots of tall trees. An...
Nov 21, 2015
Something Special
In late 2007, my husband and I and our two kids left our home in North Luangwa National Park, Zambia, and set off on a six-month journey...
Nov 12, 2015
Earthling
When people ask me where I’m from, I never know what to say. It’s complicated. What exactly do they mean? Where was I born? What...
Oct 11, 2015
The Call of the Loon
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/legalcode Following on from my last guest blog post A Memory Without a Name, today I...
Sep 30, 2015
A Memory Without Name
I moderate a group called The Story of Nature on the writers’ website Scribophile. Six weeks ago our group decided to host a Where Story...
Sep 27, 2015
11 Good (Nature) Writing Habits
I’m afraid I can’t remember where I first read these or who wrote them, or even if I might have added one or two points myself. I have...
Sep 20, 2015
A Child's Right to Hands-On Nature
According to David Attenborough, all children have an affinity for nature. I agree with him. I think we are all born with the desire to...
Sep 17, 2015
Ivory Is Not Art
A while back I wrote a poem in praise of African elephants entitled Without You. I had doubts about its technical merits but the...
Sep 13, 2015
Electric
Some months back, on a Sunday morning, my dog added his outdoor voice to those of my bickering kids and told me something was wrong. I...
Sep 6, 2015
The Perfect Pebble
I love to comb the beds of streams, the banks of rivers, the shores of lakes, and the beaches of oceans, in search of the perfect pebble....
