Can one being make a difference for many? Over the recent Thanksgiving holiday, my brother brought me a baby oak tree that had sprouted in his yard. Barely six inches tall, it has one brown leaf clinging to the stem. It had had a few leaves and they even turned the rusty red color...
Last week, I talked a little bit about several times during our lifespan, called critical periods, where we are particularly sensitive to input from our environment. Input like light and eye muscle input to the eyes when we are developing our depth perception in early childhood. Input like hormones and other signal chemicals coming...
I saw one at my in-laws place in Wisconsin last summer, on the front walk. It was writhing crazily and literally jumping off the ground. Big, fat, ugly. We stomped on it til it spilled its guts. It had that tell-tale light colored band just behind its head. A Jumping Worm! Jumping worms were...
Despite the US EPA rollback of regulations on numerous pesticides, the evidence is overwhelming that pesticides are causing harm to people and wildlife of all kinds, from the soil creatures that make our soil healthy, to the insects that pollinate our crops, to the birds that sing in our backyards, to our pets that...
End of summer, with the cooler night time temperatures, prompts area residents to close their pools for the year. Where does all that pool water go? In my neighborhood, almost half of the neighbors have pools, most are in-ground pools and a couple are above-ground pools. The pool water is gorgeous- clear, blue, inviting...
