Living In Place
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Maiden: See the Movie!
First Female Crew in Whitbread Race Maiden tells the story of the first all-female crew to sail in the Whitbread Around the World Race in 1989/90. Skippered by Tracy Edwards, the...
Returning to the Wall Phone that Hung in the Kitchen
My cell phone’s ringer sounds just like the black wall phone that hung in the kitchen of my childhood, the one I learned to dial by standing on a chair. Phone Etiquette When I...