Today is Poetry Friday! Our host is Laura Purdie Salas and she has tons of good news on her blog today. Make sure you check it out! You can also connect to more poets and their poetry at the end of her post! Thanks for hosting Laura! I’m preparing a presentation on bats for Environmental…
Caves
Environmental Lesson Planning: Happy Place for My Mind
When we were on vacation recently we met a couple. The woman, a lovely person in her mid-fifties, kept referring to the island of St. John as her happy place. She and her husband had been going to the island to vacation for the last thirty years. In April, her nephew is getting married there….
Bat Cave Shock
I stood there, in the near blackness of the cave, in three inches of water. The sump pump was next to my boots with the electric cord visible through the murky water. I had only been in the cave once before and had not yet become of fan of them. The standing water was caused…
A Real Slice of Life: Wear Your Boots!
Very often I write about something that is on my mind, something that concerns me, or something I treasure. This includes my gardens, the state of education in the U.S., our environment, insomnia, and other things that occur to me on a regular basis. I ruminate a lot. But, today, I was inspired by the…


