Aug 24, 20191 min read
THE AMAZING AMAZON-AGEDDON
As ever, we are being played. We may wish to ask why and by whom. Everywhere I turn I'm being told there are "unprecedented wildfires in...
Jul 27, 20194 min read
HONEYBEES AND HUMANITY
There's a meme that's been going around for a decade or more that I'd like to see end. There are many variations but they typically...
Jul 25, 20198 min read
BISON
Bison came up in conversation today as an example of a tremendous, almost miraculous, conservation victory. (Also, winner of best...
May 16, 20196 min read
RED, WHITE, AND BLUE NEW DEAL
You’ve likely noticed Progressives in America all atwitter with talk of what is being called the Green New Deal. And, as the nation that...
Apr 9, 20196 min read
MOVING
Before we could get keys and move in, our new landlord said he needed to have a plumber come. But he said he'd contact us shortly, as...
Apr 6, 201910 min read
BIODIVER[C]ITY
Some people were sitting together working on their laptops in the cafe when I sat down to start my own work. Shortly after I arrived one...
Mar 25, 20196 min read
THE SHÖNBRUNN MIRACLE
By Kale McDunitt May 29th, 2022 Austria's Schönbrunn Zoo, the world's oldest continuously operating zoo, went public today with a secret...
Mar 7, 20199 min read
SHOULD YOUR WORKPLACE OFFER DIVERSITY TRAINING?
With so much discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, particularly school and workplace trainings, I thought I would see what I...
Feb 14, 20195 min read
DO WE HAVE TO KEEP DOING THIS? (INSECT EDITION)
Seems every news and information source is offering that we are on the cusp of a global insect mass-extinctions threatening all life on...
Feb 11, 20193 min read
FROM NOTHING, NOTHING COMES
“What's up?” asks Perk, imagining Gram must be a little depressed, though certain as ever he remains unable to read the man. Cocking his...
Jan 30, 20195 min read
ANCIENT OR MODERN?
I'm constantly hearing about archaeologists digging up ruins and collecting artifacts from the ancient Aztec empire. Historians and...
Jan 5, 20191 min read
WRITE?
America's Authors Guild recently collected data from its own membership and the members of 14 other writers' organizations, including:...
Dec 17, 20185 min read
COLOURBLINDNESS
I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...
Dec 6, 20186 min read
ATTACK OF THE MARAUDING POST-APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE CHIMPS
“I don’t know, it’s like how people don’t seem to think about how things are made or what they’re for.” “They do, don’t they?” “No. I...
Nov 11, 20182 min read
UNKNOWN
Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...
Oct 22, 20188 min read
REFERENDUM[B]
Today I got a little booklet in the mail from the provincial government. It was the official voter's guide to the referendum on electoral...
Oct 7, 20185 min read
+10,000
Nothing happened 2,018 years ago on the first day of January. Bizarrely, Pope Gregory XIII, who gave us our modern calendar back in 1582,...
Sep 1, 20183 min read
TOO POUR
Over the last two decades I've acquired many kettles and tea pots. I've had stove-top kettles and electric kettle, whistling and...