Spoken Reflections From Tanzania: Manyara to Arusha
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 audio recordings. With this diverse toolbox I tried to document my observations, feeling, and impressions. Here are some reflections from the last day of the Nature Journal […]
Spoken Reflections from Tanzania: Day 2
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 audio recordings. With this diverse toolbox I tried to document my observations, feeling, and impressions. The following is a recording where I review my second day: It […]
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 this diverse toolbox I tried to document my observations, feeling, and impressions. The following is a recording where I review my first day: Save
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 learning and it isn’t really growth unless you feel some growing pains. I recently went to the Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa, a big event […]
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 program and leading the once a month north coast club. I’m also hoping to make it to some of the other amazing nature journal groups […]
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 a fellow nature journaler and minor assistant!! Thanks to all the knowledgeable guides and their often invisible roles as intermediaries. And last but not least, […]
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 and the ngorongoro crater with my sketchbook in hand, documenting my experience. For the second part of my trip I will be visiting the Hadzabe […]
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 in 2005 when I was living in Costa Rica. November 2005 Eating Biodiversity After several weeks of telling them that I was interested, I […]
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 but applied what I knew from home and tried to learn what I could. Tracking is one of the lenses through which I see my […]