Spoken Reflections from Tanzania: Day 1
During my trip to Tanzania, I used my nature journal and my pocket notebook for drawing and writing and I used my phone for photos, short videos, and audiorecordings. With […]
Permission to Try
Like most people I’d rather be a chameleon, I’d rather blend in. It feels easier, it takes less effort, it is less awkward and more comfortable. But it isn’t really […]
Nature Journaling Jumpstart
This October I will be teaching nature journaling every weekend! I’m really looking forward to it. I will be teaching a class through the Santa Rosa Junior College Community Education […]
Back From Tanzania
Much recognition to Jack Laws for his genius and courage in conceiving of the 2017 Nature Journal Safari! I am extremely grateful that he invited me to come on as […]
Kick Ass Kimchi
Here is a good video from Maangchi with a more traditional kimchi recipe.
Nature Journal Safari and Hadzabe Tag a Long
A week from today I will be getting on a plane heading to East Africa and Tanzania. I have been preparing for months. I will visit the world renowned serengeti […]
Flashback: Eating Bidodiversity
In this article, I describe a typical armadillo-hunting expedition and some of my personal reflections around what it means to eat “exotic” animals. It is an excerpt from my blog […]
Track-A-Long: Gray Fox vs Red Fox
A while ago, I had the luck of visiting some delicious tracking substrate on the sand dune shores of Lake Michigan. Coming from California, I was ignorant to the bio-region […]
Journal Means Daily
The etymology of the word journal indicates clearly its greatest strength. First appearing in English between 1355-1356, it came into the language through the Anglo-French words jurnal or jurnale, meaning […]
Tracking Plants
A track is a readable mark left by a movement, action, or process. Tracking is the observation of these marks and the attempt to imagine the movements, actions, or processes […]