Dolphins | Dolphins
Oct.16.2012
October 16
HIDE AND SEEK
I have sought You high and low, but like the rain, You have always found me. I, like a cold, wet cat on a winter’s day, peer into warm lit windows hoping You will be home. I seek, to keep me moving. You find me for some unknown reason...
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Feb.22.2012
I have nothing against dolphins. In fact, I find them delightful. However, the scientific understanding of them as individuals raises a few questions.
The Centre for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles has come up with a ten-point charter for “life, liberty and...
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Oct.17.2011
October 17
Bowman Beach
The swirl with the flash of teeth that I backed away from turned out to be dolphin, but that didn’t make me safer, strangers are strangers no matter who their PR team is. When I am out of my element fear grows long leads and I...
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Apr.25.2009
Why write? I don’t mean what characteristics define a writing spirit, I’ve had a bash at that elsewhere (see Blog Nº4), but what is the underlying motive, what do you as an individual want to do with your writing? It’s a worthwhile question, though possibly one best asked in retrospect. When you...
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Apr.14.2009
BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, the China Radio International reported on Monday.
The suspected pirates ships stopped and then turned away. The...
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Dec.01.2008
Through the eyes of high chiefess, Wai-nani, experience the Hawaiian society as it existed when Captain James Cook arrived at Kealakekua Bay in 1779; ride the billowing seas with Eku, the wild dolphin she befriends; learn why she loved the savage, conflicted ruler, Makaha; walk with her as she...
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Nov.03.2008
Greetings dolphin lovers ,
In this interview you will gain insight into what makes dolphins such supremely great creatures.
Dolphin play a very important role in Linda's novel Wai-nani, High Chiefess of Hawaii.
Spiritual AnimalHost Anna Maria Prezio interviewed Linda Ballou and...
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Sep.07.2008
I heard an interesting exchange while I was at the National Aquarium in DC (yes, we have one), doing research for a Washington Post article I wrote: Aquatic Adventures and a Dolphin Birthday.
There was a man there with two little boys. I imagine they were his sons and he says to one of them,...
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Apr.01.2008
I’m so excited to blog that my third picture book, Dizzy, was just chosen as a silver recipient in the 2008 Moms Choice Awards. What an honor! These awards are such an out of the blue thing. You hope to win them, hope really hard. But when it actually happens, it’s always such a huge surprise....
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