Some of the best hiking and biking trails run along abandoned railroads, logging roads, and canals. It’s like beating swords into ploughshares, only for recreation.
Month: September 2026
It’s not often that a map projection makes headlines. I have tried and failed to convince editors they are newsworthy. So it’s honestly exciting to see so many stories about the United Nations’ decision to adopt a new map projection. When I heard the news, I thought, “YES! They are ditching the Mercator. Good riddance!” […]
Dueting with animals will always be thrilling for me, and I’ll always envision our melodic conversations filling a sound gap somewhere up there. Enjoy this memory along with me! I had a conversation with an owl the other night. It was a barred owl, a pretty common species in the woods around our cabin in […]
If you really squint at a map and spin up your full kindergarten imagination, Great Britain looks like a little cartoon dinosaur roaring at Europe, its tail pointing back across the Atlantic ocean. Zoom in on the tip of that squat tail: this is Cornwall, home of clotted cream and dramatic coastal walks. Right at […]
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: There is a bug that is the best bug, and it is the cicada. We’ve just come out of August, the time of the dog-day cicadas – the ones that come out every year. This one was greeted me on my stoop the other day, […]
