Gentle Neighbors,  My kids last went to full time school 17 months ago this Tuesday. We've piecemealed care from friends, neighbors,...

  Squirrels non-violently entertaining children at a campground I am not entertained by violence. Not violence in TV sho...

I took the day fully off today. No work, not even emails. No childcare, not even taxiing them around. Instead, I went for a long hike at Jen...

The author, probably a horse Doctors are trained, when faced with an unusual set of symptoms, to diagnose the pati...

Bow Hunter's Syndrome is named for people who shoot arrows at wildlife. In order to do so, they have to turn their heads hard to ...

My doctor looked like I had just puked in his shoes, but eventually took the papers I was holding out to him. This was a better response...

In elementary school they made boys play my least-favorite-except-dodgeball game. It consisted of everyone chasing after whoever had the ...

Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Sonoma County, CA Sept 28, 2018  Hiking a bit over six miles this morning I saw no other human on the t...

The hills will look lifeless when you return, the char infinitely deep, like death on a cracker but the cracker has b...

Seeing this, it seems somehow unsurprising that we got three simultaneous Atlantic Hurricanes, including two that repeatedly made lan...

Scientists are rarely dispassionate about their research. Why spend years trying to figure out the fine details of something you have no i...

This fungal individual makes lots of complex structures, on which microbes live. So do you. A lichen is an ecosystem. It consists of a m...

I find it painful to read a very critical peer review, even if it clearly intended to be constructive. This is somehow especially true when ...

Why, please ask yourself, do the Republicans, after years of wishing to replace the Affordable Care Act, have no replacement even they can...