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Animal Behavior: Wallaby
Animal Behavior: Wallaby
Animal Behavior: WallabyAnd What We can Learn From ThemWallabies are smaller cousins of kangaroos, and like them, they're social, gentle grazers who live in loose groups called mobs.They communicate with... Read more...
Animal Behavior: Harbor Seal
Animal Behavior: Harbor Seal
Animal Behavior: Harbor SealAnd What We Can Learn From ThemHarbor seals are some of the shyest marine mammals.They haul out on beaches and rocks together, but they keep a careful... Read more...
Animal Behavior: Hedgehog
Animal Behavior: HedgehogAnd What We Can Learn From ThemHedgehogs carry somewhere between five and seven thousand spines, and they never use them to attack.When something frightens them, they tuck in their face and feet and roll into a tight ball, letting the spines face the world while the soft parts stay safe inside.They're quiet, solitary night wanderers who mostly want to be left alone to forage.And sometimes, when they meet a new smell, they do something strange: they chew it, foam at the mouth, and smear the froth across their... Read more...
Animal Behavior: Seahorse
Animal Behavior: Seahorse
Animal Behavior: SeahorseAnd What We Can Learn From ThemSeahorses defy convention in beautiful ways. Males carry the young, their bodies swelling as they incubate eggs in a special pouch.Many bonded... Read more...
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving
Well, it’s Thanksgiving.  This will be the first Thanksgiving I will have ever spent out of the US.  I would always go over to my parents house for the day. ... Read more...
October Update
October Update
UpdateI’ve been here in Canada for just over a month now.  I had the appointment with the telehealth system called Maple for my prescriptions, and it was the easiest doctor’s... Read more...
I've Fled the US, Now What?
I've Fled the US, Now What?
I’ve Fled the US, Now What?   I’ve been settling into a routine with my friends here.  They’ve been wonderful for letting me stay in their house.There’s a nature trail... Read more...
What a Long Strange Trip
What a Long Strange Trip
What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been   I traveled a lot in August.  I was only home for 5 or 6 days for the entire month.  It was my... Read more...
Writings of a Terrified Leftist
Writings of a Terrified Leftist
I can’t fathom how we’re here.  I can’t fathom that this is the world we’re living in now.  We have so many resources at our fingertips, we could build an... Read more...
Anxiety Dreams
Anxiety Dreams
Over the past few months, they’ve become more about escaping.  I’m running from monsters or other creatures.  I’m trying to hide, or flee.  I think many of them are anxiety... Read more...
Persistence is Resistance
Persistence is Resistance
I love them.  They’re family.  And I don’t know when I’ll be back to do another 4th of July with them.  I don’t know when I’ll see them again.  Read more...
The Line Between Insanity and Genius?
The Line Between Insanity and Genius?
Our history has always been a complicated mess, littered with falsehoods and hatred, and the Confederate Flag was the perfect symbol to embody that. Read more...