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Barbershop Fade

You ever notice how Brown and Black barbershop posters seem to always be faded to that greenish shiny tint, even the ones not in a window facing…

Sep 10 • 

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Rose-Colored Prairie Dawn Light

This morning I woke up to damp fog and pinkish-gray just-before-dawn light on the Fort Worth Prairie Park.

Sep 2 • 

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July 2025

Shark Therapy 2025 youth expedition

We met a young Great Hammerhead shark in about 15 feet of water.

Jul 14 • 

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June 2025

Prairie Rain

I don’t mind working in the rain.

Jun 10 • 

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May 2025

Our First Prescribed Burn: Prairie Fire Renews Life

Fire is an essential "animal" of the prairie. Like other wildlife it is an ecosystem engineer.

May 15 • 

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January 2025

Throwback Story #1: My novel Her Blue Watered Streets and La Selva, the Last Wild Jungle on the Northeast Coast of Puerto Rico

I’m a method writer, so I need to see, smell, hear, feel, absorb and physically & spiritually know a place — people and the land — if I’m going to write…

Jan 29 • 

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December 2024

September Green Sahara: A Brief Swoon From the Past

I was transfixed, spellbound; I couldn’t stop checking the Instagram feeds of my Touareg friends in Southern Algeria and Libya as torrential September…

Dec 18, 2024 • 

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October 2024

I Rescued This Prairie Turtle From Fishing Line Death and I Shouldn't Have Had To

[Watch the video of the rescue below]

Oct 6, 2024 • 

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September 2024

"Swim your own sea." 3oum Ba7rek/(A'oum Baharek) عوم بحرك

Not Being Passive to Traumas While Planting Milkweeds for the Endangered Monarch Butterfly Migration at the Fort Worth Prairie Park

Sep 27, 2024 • 

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Have You Ever Seen a Sunset Underwater?

Would you stay if you could?

Sep 25, 2024 • 

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Rug Burn on my Elbow

North Texas • May 25, 2024

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May 2024

If the Palestine Sunbird Can Live Through Pain, I Should Be Able to as Well

“In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No…

May 3, 2024 • 

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