August 5th, 2025

Another trip to the remote Pacific; Tern Island, part of the French Frigate Shoals, part of the western Hawaiian islands, where thousands of pelagic birds breed. I'm reading Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina. We fly off for hundreds of miles, with Amelia, a Laysan...

July 31st, 2025

Independent books stores as community hubs. Frank Dravis talks with Beth Hartung of Pearl Street Books on how your local bookstore is more than a quaint place to browse for your next read.

July 31st, 2025

With summer come the memories of other summers, layered on, including what is here and what is now gone. BECAUSE OF THE SUN by Minnesota Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen, is from her collection Carrying Water to the Field.

July 31, 2025:What Else?

Exploring how inviting curiosity about 'what else is going on?' may help to get the mind unstuck, or to just broaden our awareness of experience.

July 29th, 2025

I'll read another part of Eye of the Albatross, Visions of Hope and Survival, by Carl Safina. We venture into the second chapter titled Bonding. The fascinating insights into the ocean world of the albatross just keep coming.