Caligula and the Cows

Caligula and the Cows

by Kathleen Dean Moore From southeast Arizona, a parable about the power of fake fear. Like the coo of the lonesome dove or the low bawling of the calf, brrruuup is a signature sound of the Old West. It’s the noise a pickup makes when it speeds over a cattle grate in...
Butterflies Rise from the Dead

Butterflies Rise from the Dead

All summer, butterflies dance around purple lupine in our Willamette Valley field. They are tiny, the size of a buttercup, but blue. So blue, they look like slips of summer sky, taken flight. Fender’s blue butterflies. Icaricia icarioides fenderii. The butterflies...

Climate Change: Love It or Deny It?

It’s happened again. I’m on book tour with Moral Ground, a call for moral action to avert the worst effects of a warming and degraded planet. The audience is convinced; climate change is real, it is dangerous, it is upon us. They are empowered; nothing is stopping...