“All my life through the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.” Marie Curie
LATEST POSTS
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The Nature Psyche, Post #1
Combining beautiful images (mostly my own) with thoughtful words, including the occasional original haiku.
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A Haiku Tribute to a Mockingbird
I posted these haiku as tweets several months ago, but my mockingbird experience was so amazing it deserves a blog of its own. If you’ve ever had a mockingbird singing outside your bedroom window, you’ve asked the same question—how can such a small creature have such a booming voice?! Singing all night long Operatic, undeterred…
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“If I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book …” Reflections of a first time novelist.
The quote is from Mark Twain, in the voice of Huckleberry Finn. Having spent about three years editing my own manuscript, skimming through probably hundreds of literary agent profiles, and sending out a handful of query letters, I came to feel some of Huck Finn’s frustration. My novel Heartbeat of the Marru is a magical…
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The Chatham Albatrosses
These handsome seabirds, so named for the Chatham islands east of New Zealand, are medium sized albatrosses with wingspans of about 9 feet and body length from tip to tail of about 3 feet. When not nesting, these birds forage over the entire south Pacific ocean from Australia all the way east to Peru and…
Haumanu Speaks/PoetiCalli 