Rusty Ring

(The world is still talking about the 40+ degree weather we on the North Coast experienced this week. I've lived places where that ...

This week I learned two things: that something called "the Buddha-like mindset" is trending among young people in China a...

(This is Ariolimax columbianus , the Pacific banana slug. With a maximum length just south of ten inches, it's the second-large...

"About the worst kind of person I can imagine is a man who's mean to his dog." My dad. (Photo courtesy of F...

(Almost certainly the invasive Ocinebrellus inornatus , or Japanese oyster drill. I'm told the pink ones have died before hatc...

I'm just catching up with David Hayward, a cartoonist who has published under the provocative nom de guerre of The Naked P...

(This rhododendron grows just outside my mother's kitchen window. Since she moved here 6 years ago it has never bloomed – a fact s...