Tree Projects Growing in Floyd
Trees matter, forests matter. Terrestrial life has been defined by forests where it has evolved.
More Than Passing Time
How do two occasional grandparents make their first and maybe only week with their 8 yr old grandson memorable, beneficial and fun?
This Old House
Floyd County, Virginia, historic farmhouse on 80 acres with two creeks: for sale
Web Crawl Thursday 27 Feb 2020
Just clustering a few bits here this morning, from the past few days’ world watching and trying to gain traction on my own inefficiencies and perplexities. As a biology watcher, I do follow with special interest the world-health event we…
Home and Hearth
Replenish as you deplete: that has been the Rule of the Woodpile since we moved to Goose Creek in 1999 and spent our first winter in Y2K. Until maybe eight years ago, this meant extraordinary measures involving me (and oftentimes…
Teacher as StoryTeller
The story of what LIFE does to MATTER is perhaps the most remarkable--and important--story everyone, and especially our leaders, should know well.
The Conversation: Feeding your Genius and Putting it to Good Work
How do we cultivate our passionate interests to grow genius to do good things?
Global Worming
Non-native earthworms are perhaps the most serious of invasive land pests. Learn about them and avoid spreading them when possible.
The Children-Avatars of Goose Creek
It is a fact (barring worse-case outcomes in the real estate realm) that this date a year from now, I will not be sitting at this desk in this room at these coordinates on Planet Earth. But someone will be…
More Shorts for Cold Weather
Here is served more high-fiber roughage, I suppose, that helps keep the old information digestion system moving regularly. One has to take the time to slow down and spend a few moments of quiet reflection, and just let go. Pass…
Contagion: Contained?
As a biologist, I’ve always been interested in epidemiology of disease, and as a zoologist, particular those that originate in wild or domestic animals. And so there has been quite a bit to keep up with regarding the zoonoses of…
Sunday Shorts: 020220
I’m taking the path of least resistance, tossing up some links from the past week or so, straight from my daily gatherings (using ROAM as mentioned below.) YMMV. A new day for Indigo Snakes in ALABAMA Longest snake in North…