I woke this morning to the blasting cacophony of gravel trucks on the highway and the screaming cries emanating from the flock of magpies invading our valley. After a restless night of graphic nightmares of dogs in the San Antonio shelter for the second night in a row, I felt... Read more →

As published in A Sheltered Life, Issue No. 13, June, 2021, (Destiny’s Paws, Littleton, Colorado) It was on a sun-dappled, frigid January morning that I first saw him. His eager expression conveying the golden light of hope shining in the deep auburn pools of ocular love. His foxlike caramel ears... Read more →

I wake, at long last, to a different kind of morning. The sky has cut loose and freed up, opening its bounty onto the land. It’s as though God were tossing handfuls of moisture gently down for sustenance. Here, He says, quiet yourselves for a time, still your body in... Read more →

The first time I ever saw Fatty Pants, it was four o’clock in the morning. My husband and I were sleeping. I’d awakened with my ritual insomnia occurrence. Rather than tossing about in bed, I got up, fully intending to stargaze on our front porch. Staring up into all that... Read more →

Wolves. Can you think of a more controversial animal? The slightest invocation of the word evokes polemic images ranging from Little Red Riding Hood to silhouettes of a howling wolf set against a full moon backdrop. People either love or hate them – not many soft expressions have been uttered... Read more →

Publications

Elephant Journal:

• What Would It Be Like To Follow A Grasshopper Around For The Day?

• One Small Change We Can All Make To Save Lives

• Beyond Bear 317 . . . How To Handle It Better In 2016

• Breathing For Wolves Using Tonglen To deal With Animal Cruelty

• This Is The Suchness Of Mountain Living

• What a Simple Cup of Peanuts can do for Our Planet

• How our “Bad Bear-havior” is contributing to Bear Fatalities

• A Prayer for Wolves

• A Prayer for the Advocates

Lady Freethinker:

Note for my sensitive readers: The image contained in the publication is graphic and disturbing. While I would prefer to not share the images of what’s happening to Alaska’s wildlife, it is important to accurately depict the cultural byproduct arising from Alaska’s aggressive anti-predator policies…

• Guns, Wolves and Hunting

Boulder Daily Camera:

• Honoring Bear 317

Help Save Animals

Of Dogs

Of Ecopsychology

Of Bears

Coexistence

Of Wolves

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Elephant Journal:

Lady Freethinker:

Boulder Daily Camera: