The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans By Cynthia Barnett W.W. Norton & Company 417 p., 2021 Barnett believes we are again poised at the...
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Ichetucknee: Spiritual Awakening
My baptism in Florida’s healing waters happened one late July afternoon when I was traveling with a fellow teacher to interview a paleontologist. I owe my...
‘Bending Arc’ Does it bend far enough?
Janet Echelman named her 2020 sculpture "Bending Arc" to echo a quote Martin Luther King made famous, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward...
The Flamingo Lodge: Florida’s Mission 66
To find Flamingo using Google Maps, drop a locator pin where the beach meets Florida Bay. Follow the driving directions from Homestead, then fork off U.S. Hwy.1 and cut...
Old tires and non-residents: Don’t tread on my sand!
Volume 1, Issue 6, 2017A Spare Tire for the One Percent In September 2016, waves from Category 1 Hurricane Hermine dumped a heavy-construction tire on exclusive...
Tired Ol’ Bricks & Mortar Made New,
I’m welcoming 2019 with my newly published article in the Journal Wild Culture. Artist Pitor Janowski’s works to reveal our physical world before gentrification makes...
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Kyle Pierson
I never expected to leave the beach, palm trees, and glorious sunsets of Florida. Seriously! I even have a master’s degree in Florida Studies. So, my move to Washington, the Evergreen State, had to be from a powerful pull. It was; in 2020, my husband Dave and I became grandparents to twin grandsons, and their brother who was born in 2022. Grandparenting adds a new busy dimension to our lives and readers might assume my interest in Florida nature and architecture has faded. But I’m curious about those things here in the PNW too. I’m looking forward to learning like a kid again and having three little guys join me on my explorations!
You’ll find my writings about Florida, North Carolina, and Washington here, along with a new tab, poetry and maybe some drawings. So the journey continues. You’re welcome to come along.