Biology, Psychiatry, and Society

Landscape and Meaning

I had an unexpected lesson the other day about the significance of landscape. I was intending to write about the impossibility of...

Local at the Border

I had pictured the U.S.-Mexico border as a line through the desert from San Diego to El Paso and then down the Rio Grande to the Gulf of...

Grappling with the Mississippi Delta

It’s attractive farm country, like the San Joaquin Valley, but with more trees and no Sierras on the eastern horizon, and Nebraska, but...

Embodied in the Outdoors

Well the Mississippi Delta brought me up short. To write another of these mini-essays about people’s relationship to the Delta would mean...

Will Gullah Culture Survive?

First, apologies to those of you who subscribed to this blog but haven’t been receiving email notifications. The problem has hopefully...

History and Imagination in the Great Dismal Swamp

In the coastal lowlands of Virginia and North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp has a long and colorful history and an even greater...

Cape May and the Ocean

Cape May turns out to be a fine place to consider our relationship with nature and climate. The southern tip of New Jersey, with the...

Under Way at Last . . .

this morning. I-90 to 84 and on past NYC to Exit Zero--Cape May, NJ, the southern end of the Garden State Parkway. Primo birding town of...