On the twisting road that rises from the plains below to the ridges and plateaus of the Prades Mountains we pull over, in part to admire the steep green river valleys and the limestone cliffs curling away into the distance, but mostly to let our oldest son decorate the roadside scrub with the contents of…
After browsing what’s on offer, I’ve come to a carefully measured conclusion: Pinterest-style camping tips are largely bullshit. No, hey, if you want to hand paint stones or make place settings with glow sticks, or make a bowling set with glow sticks, or cover the floor of your tent with interlocking foam tiles (and glow sticks)…
DisaPPOINted! I’m not one to throttle you with condemnation or pontificate from my personal soapbox, but a couple of weeks ago I threw down a gauntlet. Perhaps when you reach nearly 6,000 followers (and really, truly, thank you, everyone) you begin to harbor delusions of grandeur. Perhaps you begin to believe that people will follow…
I, like all bloggers, absolutely adore getting comments on posts. Positive, negative, challenging, pugnacious – they’re all good (although of course one prefers the adulatory to the disparaging, as is only natural). Just last night I received a comment on my post about Earth Hour, and as I got ready to respond I realized that…
Take a gene from a mouse that’s responsible for creating the eye of that mouse, introduce it into a fruit fly larva, and it will still create an eye. A fruit fly eye. Despite the fact that you have two creatures that haven’t shared a common ancestor for, at best estimates, 500 million years, you…
Earth Hour kicks off in New Zealand in 18 days, 18 hours, and 16 minutes, at least as I write this sentence. Never heard of it? Then you probably live in the United States. Earth Hour, according to Wikipedia, is “a worldwide grass-roots movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Earth…
I’ve broken a promise, and for that I’m sorry. You see, almost a year ago I made a pledge. Earth Hour was approaching, and I made what is called an “I Will if You Will” video and challenge, promising to never, ever in my life order bottled water in a restaurant if 50 people would…
