Sunday, June 7, 2015

I Didn’t Choose It

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She looks like my dryad The world I live in. Not the world at large, but the one I personally inhabit. This world is one where everythi...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Operation Jade Helm: A Confederacy of Dunces (with apologies to the original)

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The are called "war games" after all I will admit that I can be surprised from time to time. But I cannot be surprised by the...
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Sunday, April 19, 2015

A Particularly Horrible Fate

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On a very gloomy afternoon, Chipmunk and Weasel were playing “catch the tail” in a big hollow log. They would run in circles trying to...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

And Yet Another Old Friend Dies.

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If you knew Gus, you know this is true We met at the Morton Building in Charlottesville when PVCC was being planned. He was the chair o...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Political Season Opens with a BANG!!!

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Politics. It never ends does it? Now we are well into the pre-2016 election season and the woodwork had yielded up many critters. Some ob...

An Old Woodpecker Finds Help and Peace

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Squirrel  and Possum were moping around in an old hollow log one rainy afternoon. “Possum, I am bored. Let’s go out in the rain and have ...
Friday, March 27, 2015

America in Transition: From “Freedom from Discrimination” to “Freedom to Discriminate”

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"America is undergoing a very troubling transition. For the last 30 or 40 years or so Christian fundamentalists have been systematic...
Friday, March 20, 2015

A Tale of Strange Friends and Their Adventure

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Fin (Father and son looking out of a window at a bird feeder with one goldfinch sitting on it) Dad, why is that bird all by hims...

Stand your ground and still die.

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A canine cop and dog were trailing a suspect in pine woods in southwest Florida. The dog stuck his/her face into a rattle snake and got ...
Monday, February 23, 2015

A Bit of Bravery.

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A long time ago, before humans moved in next to the Valley, the animals who lived there developed the ability to talk to each other. Some...