Enric Sala wanted to know: “In what way do we depend on all…other species for our own survival?” This book, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild, is the answer. A former faculty member at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Sala founded the National Geographic Pristine Seas program. With these and other relevant…
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How Living in Saudi Arabia Helped Me Navigate Covid-19– With Splashes of Joy! guest post from Doreen M. Cumberford
I‘m delighted to have Doreen Cumberford as a guest on the DZA blog today. There’s information at the end of the post about her new book, Life in the Camel Lane, but first…the most interesting post you’ll read all week…. My family and I lived in Saudi Arabia during the 9/11 disaster. From the vantage…
Steven Womack – Three Questions & a Cover
Three Questions and a Cover — a short interview with one of my favorite authors, along with one of the author’s covers.
The Mindful Writer – Dinty W. Moore
When I invite authors to participate in Three Questions & a Cover, I’m as eager as anyone to read their answers. There is probably a writer somewhere who understands this crazy profession / lifestyle / obsession / madness. Most of us are as confused about it today as we were the first time we put…
Elizabeth Foxwell – Three Questions & a Cover
Three Questions and a Cover — a short interview with one of my favorite authors, along with one of the author’s covers.
Writing Down the Rows
This guest post from Julie Herman originally appeared on my blog back in 2012. Julie is the author of the Three Dirty Women gardening mysteries, and she has lately expanded her literary gifts to include middle grade mysteries, beginning with Burned. The previous article had a comment that got me to thinking. I do a…
Writers in the garden
There was a time when the little lady you see below would have sent me screaming. Fortunately Margaret Maron taught me to admire the Argiope, or ‘writing spider.’ Yes, like Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web. You can see how the string of Ms or Ws that she’s created look like writing. This particular Charlotte has taken…
Junk food in my garden
This post was originally published in 2012. Earlier this year I discovered that mice and voles had taken up residence in my garden. It was a smart move on their part — the chicken coop is right next door, so they could gorge on the seed I’d planted then curl up for the night in…
Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert review
We all think our own lives are normal until we move or are pushed past the boundaries of our comfort zone. Erica Elliott was barely out of her teens when the full realization of this hit her hard. Even though she was well-educated and well-traveled, it took living and working on the Navajo reservation to…
David Hunter – Three Questions & a Cover
Three Questions and a Cover — a short interview with one of my favorite authors, along with one of the author’s covers.