Anubis Bard

On November 28th, 1963 my parents were married in Galilee, Pennsylvania.  On November 30th, 2013, people gathered in Mount Gretna, PA t...

preparing the meal Porter carves the turkey a feast of thanksgiving

_ The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the great museums of the world.  What is astounding about the place is not only the expanse of...

- The other day, I had to make a long trip in the car with my 11-year old son, Nico.  The radio was broken, and for 3 hours we sang in the...

walking the Coogan Farm _ I've slowly come to realize that for me the most important spiritual practice of all is to walk in natu...

_ The basil and pepper plants were already done in by earlier frosts, but a hard freeze tonight will probably do for the rest.  I pulled ...

_ In a few days, it will drop down to the mid 20's here, but today the breeze is warm the the door is open.  We've already had a ...

_ Nico decided to be the Universe for Halloween. So, the night before, he and his friend Anya are painting comets and galaxies an...

_ Monica and I have both been under-employed and money, as they say, has been tight.  But life has to be lived and so last Friday we head...

_ I'm always bemused by the polling that purports to gauge how popular these Democratic health reforms are, when pretty much...

_ image by Colin Beale There is a species of bird in Africa called the greater  honeyguide  ( Indicator indicator ), which likes to e...

_ I had to walk farther back into the forest this time,  but I found another nice Hen-of-the-woods. When I brought it in to sho...

_ wikipedia This summer, I've noticed the occasional bald-faced hornet  ( Dolichovespula maculata ) at the compost heap or checki...

_ 7 years ago we hired a pair of women to paint our house.  By the time they reached the last of the four sides, not only had they un...

_ Mushroom hunting is a practice best approached with caution, so I've only just added a second species to my foraging.  Number one w...

When it comes to climate change, I’m not a huge fan of George Monbiot.  He’s too fond of playing the calm, reassuring voice of re...

autumn greenbriar still life with purple sneakers hay field across the road

_ Years ago, when I was traveling in Norwegian Lapland wearing a backpack and my first beard, an old man showed me a souvenir that he pre...

_ For this house in the woods,  it's the season  when mice try to move in,  and the cats  enact  lengthy,  drawn-out  exe...

_ Every fall, at the end of September the Nature Center in Mystic puts on a Wild Mushroom Festival.  The local mycologists all bring t...