Writing is an act of courage, faith, heart, and joy. For the past seven years I’ve worked at crafting true stories (creative nonfiction essays), centered around my life as an ethnoecologist. I’ve gone through hundreds of drafts, dozens of rejections. My first essay to be nominated for a Pushcart was published in Fall 2014 by […]

When I first began publishing in the sciences, most peer-reviewed academic papers – based on months, years, even decades of hard work – were read by an average of seven people. Seven. Thanks to open-access journals on the worldwide web, that number is rising. But not that much: a quick overview glance of study citations in […]

So there was this guy. A shy, kind artist who worked in metal, lived by the ocean, had tons of friends, and also did an awesome job detailing cars. One day he drove four hours from his home to Ft. Bragg to deliver an enormous hanging sculpture-thingy to my best friend Virginia, who lived in my […]

Three years ago I began “art-ing” chairs to raise funds for Art Center Ukiah, one of the sponsors of a downtown gallery where monthly poetry readings inspired me to begin writing poems again. I love the symbiotic synchronicity of engaging in one artistic form to support another. All my Art Chairs follow an oceanic theme; […]