I know where the new beaver lodge is! Thankfully, top hats are out of fashion, and we have a healthy beaver population here in the canyon.

For the past three years (winters of 2013-14, 2014-15 & 2015-16), the beavers were busy working on an extravaganza to the south of...

Photo by Simon Williams 

I’ve walked outside this October evening so I can marvel at a starry sky like few ever see. The Milky Way (80% of American children may never see this!) arcs from north to south, like an immense rainbow made of glimmering light (Check out links...

Despite the wonderful work of all the truly talented nature writers (Check out articles on nature writers at the bottom of this post), the experience of being immersed in the natural world is still beyond words. I’m sitting on the bank of the river watching the play of...

It was a time of great distress and it took a while before I noticed the void in my inner life after I sacrificed my drum. I realized how much I wanted to bring that part of myself back and that I wanted to make my own drum, although I didn’t know how I would accomplis...