Eating the Landscape

While you may not have thought about eating the landscape, I’m currently obsessed by the idea for two reasons. Eating the Cultivated Landscape First, I’ve been eating all my life, and I don’t just love food, I love the rituals around it, from planting peas when...

New Planned Parenthood Opens Downtown

The new clinic is downtown and open to all. The combination of mass shootings and the continual assaults on women’s access to reproductive health care hit home a few weeks ago, when I attended the grand opening of the new Planned Parenthood office in downtown...

Monarchs & Migration

A Symbol of Migration “Support Immigrants” poster by Luis Rafael Thanks to a reader of Milkweed & Monarchs, I learned that Monarchs and Migration go way beyond the butterflies themselves. Monarchs have become symbols of migration, and twenty-two year...

Milkweed & Monarchs

I’m obsessed with milkweed and Monarchs: a Monarch caterpillar on a milkweed plant. I’m obsessed with milkweed and Monarchs these days, and keep checking wild milkweed, hunting for hungry caterpillars. Of course I read Eric Carle’s The Hungry Caterpillar to my...

Is Facebook Necessary?

In 2014 I started an Author Page on Facebook, considered necessary for marketing my work. Facebook for Marketing I opened my first Facebook account in 2010, as a marketing tool when Into the Wilderness, came out. In those early days of social media, Facebook didn’t...