A couple of years ago I climbed Flattop Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park with my dad. I’m back in Colorado this week, again with family, so I thought it was a good time to recall that hike. The Milky Way hung overhead. The lights from the far-off plains made a faint glow in the […]
Month: August 2017
This ran not that long ago, August 23, 2016. But I feel it should be run again because it has an important update. Recently, Helen and I made mint lemonade again, this time with Jenny. As the post suggests, we blended-and-spigoted at the same time, and instead of demarara sugar, we used white. The pond scum […]
The Svalbard archipelago, midway between continental Norway and the North Pole, is famous for its polar bears, but it is also home to the distinctive (and distinctively adorable) Svalbard reindeer. Shaggy-haired and stubby-legged, the Svalbard reindeer is not only the world’s smallest subspecies of reindeer but also the world’s northernmost herbivorous mammal, and its survival […]
