If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then how many words is a film worth? Fluent Magazine features the 10th anniversary of the American Conservation Film Festival in its September/October issue. Check out my article here and come to Shepherdstown, WV November 1-4 for the fabulous four day festival. Continue reading The power of film
If we were gonna do it, we were gonna do it right. One doesn’t take 4,000 miles, several mountain ranges, and 9 states in a 10 year old Honda Civic lightly. There had to be compelling reasons for my sister, my husband and me to drag my elderly father and 10-year old niece and nephew across the country to Yellowstone National Park. Yes, a trip … Continue reading What we didn’t do on our summer vacation
I spent New Year’s Eve in a straw house. No wolves arrived to blow it down (although our hosts’ two bear-sized malamute-mix dogs could have stood in if they were so inclined). And other than the so-called truth window, you’d never know that the insulation behind the plaster walls was bales of straw and not sheets of fiberglass. The truth window next to the front … Continue reading Old stuff, new thinking
Every year I grapple with the same thing. The first weekend in November typically is gorgeous, with the sun just strong enough by midday to shine a few final bursts of warmth through the bare trees before it withdraws into the dark and cold of December. Most of the leaves are down, although a few still decorate the landscape with splotches of orange or red … Continue reading Inside out
A scary thing will happen this Halloween: the world’s population will reach seven billion people according to a new United Nations Population Fund report. That’s six billion more than existed just 200 years ago and twice as many as 1960. Each person requires food, water, shelter, clothing, health care, and ideally, opportunities for self-fulfillment – a tall order on a crowded planet. Providing adequately for … Continue reading A frightening future: Overpopulation
