The Misfortune Of Knowing – Books, Writing, & the Law

A Front Row Seat to a Fall Show

A few weeks ago, I saw one of fall’s greatest shows: the dropping of the ginkgo…

How has the wildlife in your area changed? I remember the excitement I felt whenever my…

Originally posted on Captain's Quarters: Ahoy there me mateys! Though this log’s focus is on sci-fi,…

Winter’s shimmering, icy landscape is more beautiful when I don’t commute to work in it. For…

COVID-19 continues to rage in many parts of the world, but where I live, the number…

We have reached another grim milestone in the United States: the pandemic has now claimed over…

I didn’t know that birds sleep with one eye open until I read What It’s Like…

This has been quite a year. We’re still in the midst of a deadly pandemic that…

In A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Witch Trials and the American Experience, historian Emerson W.…

In Always October, a middle grade novel by Bruce Coville, a well-intentioned blue monster fights an…