Archive for October 2007

Living Fearlessly, Taking Chances

  I’ve had a decade long obsession with a guilty female pleasure, Oprah.  The show today was particularly resonant with me since they talked about death and the lack of discussion about death in American culture.  We seem to believe we can circumvent that last, very organic, part of existence by failing to acknowledge it. [...]

Traffic’s So Slow You Can Watch a Sunrise

  When was the last time you really watched the sun rise?  I freely admit, it was probably back on January 1, 2000; I watched the sunrise for the “dawn of the new millenium”.  Yeah, I guess I’ve always been a romantic kind of girl.  I want to experience these kind of halcyon moments in [...]

Homesick Crocodiles

I find it amazing that, more than a year after his passing, Steve Irwin is still making contributions to the field of wildlife biology.  PLOS One published a paper by Irwin and several colleagues that tracked the movement of Australia’s estuarine crocodiles.  Its an innovative use of tags and spatial analysis of crocodile territories and [...]

Obsessed with Questions

I have been obsessed with questions since I was small.  “Why why why why why?”; annoying and precocious.  In other words, a giant pain in the rear.  I’ve always wanted to understand people, places, concepts, and things.  I’ve always searched for the hidden in the obvious, the subliminal messages and insights between the lines on the [...]