I have concluded that the first step in facing an irrational feel is to go to the internet.  You not only have immediate knowledge – the universal antidote to fear – but you will also have easy access to others who have embraced your fear, turned it into a sustaining passion and their life’s work.…

We have now almost completed a full year at our new home on the Middlefork prairie.  One of the true pleasures is a greater appreciation of the year’s cycles.  The movement of the setting sun across the horizon and the waves of migrating birds were both anticipated and welcomed.  Our seasonal infestation of ticks, however,…