Sep 7, 2018
My Animal Self
An opinion piece in The New York Times caught my eye recently. In The Beast in Me, Maxim Loskutoff describes an encounter with a female...
May 4, 2018
A Queer, Delightful Feeling
My mother and I both have husbands who do not much care for visiting museums and famous monuments, or gardens, ancient ruins, and...
May 2, 2017
Conservation: A Dream, Not a Problem
Conservation. Optimism. Two great words in themselves, but in combination they are compelling, even startling. When I heard talk of a...
Apr 5, 2017
Do I Do Enough?
It’s midnight. I’ve been on my laptop all day and I’ve just had a glass of wine to wind down. Before I go to bed, I check my inbox and...
Mar 19, 2017
Arty-Farty Nature
If you could learn to play a musical instrument, which would you choose? Or, if you could choose one talent, which would it be? These are...
Aug 21, 2016
The Joys of Camping Wild
I have my husband to thank for introducing me to wild camping. Our first trip together, twenty-five years ago, was to somewhere in the...
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...
