Bugs, Insects, & Crawlies

I don’t want them in my house, on the dog, or anywhere near me. Flying, crawling or hopping, I was never much of an amateur Entomologist. However, as one who teaches literary analysis to pay the rent, I do have my students look into the symbolism of any creepy...

Attack of the Clutter

Stuff–knick knacks, doodads, duplicates, gadgets, equipment, gear, junk–multiplies like rabbits! Before you know it–BAM–you’ve got clutter! One day you look around the casa and think, Yikes! Working and writing have left no time to manage...

Edith Hamilton

This week’s spotlight on Fab Female Friday is a scholar and one of the foremost women Classicists. (That’s one who has studied the Greek/Roman Greats like Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Ovid, and Homer.) (And you think your thoughts are deep?!) Her...

Rainforest Facts

Going…going… Long ago, rainforests covered about 14% of the earth. Now? Only 6% remains  20% of the world’s oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest More than half of the world’s estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects...

Huaorani: Amazonian Tribe

Their name means “the people” and they are a remote tribe of about 3000, their population spread over 28 communities deep in the Ecuadorian jungles. As deforestation continues encroaching upon their home, polluting the rivers and destroying their way of...
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