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Access issues of my twice-monthly letter, The Wild Now, plus a growing collection of poems, personal essays & creative nonfiction

Dead or alive—we love them all, don't we?
Wild Now

Dead or alive—we love them all, don't we?

Journal | Week of November 7, 2022
What perches in your soul?
Wild Now

What perches in your soul?

Journal | Week of October 31, 2022
When was the last time you danced with a raccoon?
Wild Now

When was the last time you danced with a raccoon?

Journal | Week of October 24, 2022
Wings, Strings & Practicing DogMind
Wild Now

Wings, Strings & Practicing DogMind

Journal | Week of October 17, 2022
Curiosity heals, or how to make a bee mummy
Wild Now

Curiosity heals, or how to make a bee mummy

Journal | Week of August 22, 2022
What are you continuing that someone else began?
Wild Now

What are you continuing that someone else began?

Journal | Week of August 15, 2022
Who is the person who still loves?
Wild Now

Who is the person who still loves?

Journal | Week of August 8, 2022
image of puma face
Wild Now

[New] Sharing from my journal—lions and hawks and sunsets, oh my!

Journal | Week of August 1, 2022
Soiled teddy bear among rubble of concrete and wires

That Day and How to Hold On to Others:

Living Forward From 9/11
Photo of two dandelion thistles in separate vases of water that seem to be reaching for each other.

Can Hurt Help Us See Each Other?

”Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand." — Patti Smith, singer-songwriter My mother was one of
Photo of two elephants, younger & older, connecting over a fence, trunks hood together.

Can you heal grief by being a perfect stranger?

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once,
What You Need to Know

What You Need to Know

"True beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, author of book, On Death
Photo of a white cat with tiger patches, face cocked, and looking at the viewer with yellow-green eyes.

Singing to Stones

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened." — Anatole France, French
Photo of a group of children in a rural Sierra Leone village, smiling, hands raised for a 'high-5.'

What I Know About Ebola—Part IV

"I have two hands: one for me, one for other people." — Millie Bobby Brown, actress and UNICEF Goodwill
Photo of a small, healthy, stray dog—brown and white with bent ears—sitting on the ground, his tongue, licking around his mouth.

Eating Chicken in the Villages

"I think dogs . . . are the role model for being alive." — Gilda Radner, actress/comedian At every mid-day meal,
What I Know About Ebola — Part III

What I Know About Ebola — Part III

"Viruses have to live somewhere." — David Quammen, science writer For a moment, it will look beautiful, a piece
Up-close photo of spider web beaded with rain against a blurred background of green and blue.

Well, One Life . . .

"It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me." — Cheryl Hayashi, spider biologist Most
Photo of a fox-faced bat hanging upside down with big round, amber eyes looking at the viewer.

What I Know About Ebola—Part II

"Fruit bats found throughout Africa are thought to be natural hosts for the Ebola virus. How would they infect