Step 1. Get yourself a snake. Preferably a dead one, on the fresh side. The Pacific gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer catenifer) in this post is from road kill. I could never kill a snake because I’m a snake worshipper, but if I…
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When I received the alert that Ian Irwin (72) and Carol Kiparsky (77) had disappeared on Valentine’s Day in Inverness, I was sick with worry. I live less than two miles from where they were last seen. Were they lost…
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This morning our road was blocked by tree workers, trucks, and chippers, and I could not get my son to his class. I had received no notification that this work was being done, and so had not made any arrangements…
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As a child, I was inherently wild. There were no computers or cell phones in the old days, and I spent my time outside immersed in nature. I was an inquisitive creature fascinated by everything that moved, and I enjoyed…
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