We’re taking and have taken a short break and we’ll be back on Friday, 1/2/2026. Don’t lose faith. We still love you, we do. _________ By Petar Milošević – https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=147441865
Month: December 2025
Happy holidays, readers! Today we’ve got a special group post for you — a roundup of the best and worst gifts we’ve ever received. Enjoy! (And please post yours in the comments for the enjoyment of all). We’ll be back bright-eyed and bushy-tailed in 2026. Jenny The best and worst gifts were both from my […]
I am lately returned from Punta Tombo, the Magellanic penguin breeding colony in Argentina where I spend several weeks each year. One of my tasks there is to open the field season in late October, which means I spend a lot of the early days stumping around our designated study areas looking for study penguins. […]
This post first ran in April of 2019 and the 6th grader I’m referring to is now in college and I’m leaving every possibility open to journey with them again. I pulled my 6th grader out of school for a week to hit the road. I adore the public school teachers who spend time with […]
The little creek that runs along the railroad tracks through Bellefonte, Pennsylvania is beautiful at this time of year, shallow water running clear and dark, banks and bare branches covered in snow. The creek is a tributary of Bald Eagle Creek, itself a tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna. It’s the place my husband first learned […]
For a few years now, I’ve been going through my annual list of books read and picking my favorites. (Here’s 2024 and 2022. I guess I didn’t share my list in 2023, though I did contribute to some of LWON’s best of the year lists.) This year, wow! I read a lot of really great […]
My very healthy father died unexpectedly at Thanksgiving in 2023. In what turned out to be the last 3 1/2 years of his life, he and I went on a lot of hikes. My parents lived close to the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River, and, in the times of pandemic lockdown, it was a […]
Dreading the coming face-plant into January? I am. Cold, dark mornings followed by cold, dark evenings, chintzy decor strung up well past its prime, dirty snow (if any snow at all) heaped under dreary parking lot lighting, long gift-return lines. Nature brown and bare. Plus, the state of the world. THE STATE OF THE WORLD. […]
