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Jun.06.2013 Whale Watching in Paris One of the reasons I love living in Paris is that I can find just about anything I want here. But one thing I, a whale fanatic and would-be marine biologist, thought I couldn’t find was a way to see whales. There are whale skeletons in the Muséum de l’Histoire Naturelle...	Apr.24.2010 Whale Poo and Badgers In a strangely redeeming way, marauding badgers and pooping whales are heroic. In Idaho, where any form of life that competes with human hunters for game and grazing rights is shot on sight, badger populations have been eradicated wholesale. So have wolves, coyotes, bobcats, grizzly bears,...
Aug.18.2009 A Book and a Chat with "Douglas Abrams" A Book and a Chat with "Douglas Abrams" Listen to today's tremendously entertaining "A BOOK AND A CHAT with Douglas Carlton Abrams" Douglas Carlton Abrams is a former editor at the University of California Press and HarperSanFrancisco. Abrams writes fact-based fiction that...	Apr.16.2009 is that a sea serpent, or are you happy to see me? Who doesn't love a mystery, especially if it involves sailors and serpents on the high seas. Medieval bestiaries are replete with references to serpents, none of which are flattering. Second only to the bible in popularity, these early accounts, with their fantastic images, gave animals mythical...
Nov.21.2008 Japanese Set Out to Hunt Whales in Antarctica: Can we just leave them alone, please? T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruellest month, but among Antarcticans that month would have to be November in these times. For it is in November Japanese whalers set off on their cruel and brutal slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean. The Southern Ocean is part of the Antarctic -- (*to be...	Nov.13.2008 Let's Not Eat Whales Anymore.... Word comes our way from the South that Darryl Hannah is about to head to Antarctica. What's all this, you may gasp. She's joined the renegade (but admirable) Sea Shepherd expedition heading down that way to protest Japanese whaling. The big story, however, is that whaling may indeed be over for...
Apr.24.2008 Oxtails and Beached Whales and Podcasts OH MY I'm indulging in some "creative procrastination" today -- as I slowly reenter the regular world after nine days of the altered state brought on by a death in the family. SO... and inspired by Jessica Barksdale's podcast/snickerdoodles, I've "podcasted" a short story I wrote...	Mar.03.2008 Sailing After the Whales My first travel feature covered the front page of the Riverside Press-Enterprise's travel section yesterday. They didn't use my fluke shot in the centerpiece, somewhat disappointing, but the shot they used was much more vivid. My shot appears with the jump to page 3. It's been a while since I've...