Greetings, subscribers. This post is about something I did to honor cancer victims. My mother died of ovarian cancer at the young age of 48 in 1968 when I was 16 years old. As I recall, she didn’t have time to actually lose much of her hair before that dreadful … [Read more…]
Greetings, subscribers. As promised, here’s the third post about Earth Care by my friend, the naturalist and author, Peg Sias Lantz. Let’s learn a little something about pine trees … The unique longleaf pines When my Dad was eight years old, his Dad moved the family to Lake Lucy, [Florida] … [Read more…]
Greetings, subscribers. As promised, here’s the second post about Earth Care by my friend, the naturalist and author, Peg Sias Lantz. Let’s learn a little something about trees … Trees: What do they do? Most people agree that a tree in your yard can offer many things – beauty, shade, … [Read more…]
Greetings subscribers. Don’t you love it when you come across something in your files that you forgot about but glad you kept? The following is a letter I emailed to The New Yorker magazine in March, 2011, in response to an article they published by Lawrence Wright, titled: “The Apostate.” … [Read more…]
Greetings, subscribers. This post—and a few more to come—offers some wonderful information about caring for Mother Nature from my dear friend, Peggy Sias Lantz, a nature lover who cares deeply about our Mother Earth. Peg is a Florida Master Naturalist whose family has lived in Florida for more than 100 … [Read more…]