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Herons
Cornell has a second nest-cam up, this one of a great blue heron nest that’s viewable from their building. It’s incredible that such a large, gangly bird starts as such a tiny egg!…
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own is around 100 pages long. It’s Virginia Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness essay (originally a speech to an all-women’s college in 1929) on the subject of women in fiction. At least,…
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Mark 11 and C.S. Lewis
This morning I revisited C.S. Lewis’s thoughts on Mark 11:24 in Letters to Malcolm. I like his take, and I’m going to quote him at length from his 11th chapter. He concludes by…
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Red-Tail Observation
Our family has been enjoying the Cornell University red-tailed hawk nest-cam this week. We even participated in the contest to name the male red-tail, suggesting “Romulus.” I thought it was pretty great, but…
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When I Was a Child I Read Books
I belong to the community of the written word in several ways. First, books have taught me most of what I know, and they have trained my attention and my imagination. Second, they…
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Red-tailed Hawk Nest
My husband has challenged us to find a red-tailed hawk nest to observe this spring. So far, we’ve had no luck finding one… till today, when the announcement of a live nest-cam at…
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First day of spring
We went for a walk at our favorite wetland preserve to see what we could see on this first day of spring — at least, according to the calendar. I guess it depends…
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Wood frogs and spring peepers
Just four days after our last walk that introduced the mystery sound, the vernal pool was alive with an almost deafening din of frogs. Most of the racket is from spring peepers, but…
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Stories, not atoms
My tagline is a line from Muriel Rukeyser: “The world is made up of stories, not atoms.” I just finished a book about how our lives follow a narrative, and it made me…
