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...