Below, I’m listing local events where I plant to speak or share or both. The first one is this Saturday (Sept 27) at the Hendersonville Public Library.
But first, an update from this month’s Native Nature Share:
I wrote my first book in Kindergarten. It was about an ant:
This is How a Robin Drinks: Essays on Urban Nature is my second book, and it is finally real.
The advance praise is gobsmackingly wonderful, so I’ve made a page for what Margaret Renkl, Doug Tallamy, David George Haskell, Georgeann Eubanks, Erika Howsare, Michael Sims, and The Humane Gardener, Nancy Lawson took the trouble to say, along with some reviews so far. Here’s that page: link.
One review made me glad I read it alone in the kitchen, so I could clutch the countertop and have a proper, joyful, and very ugly cry.
Photos of the *Book Launch* at Parnassus Books with Margaret Renkl are below, but first, a request:
Continue reading “Book: This is How a Robin Drinks (an invitation, and recap of Launch)”
“Pick me!” says the fig hanging over the street.
Every morning, I resist the temptation to pluck a fig from a sidewalk tree. I walk before dawn, but the plump silhouette is clear against the brightening sky.
“Pick meee!”
I’ve watched this fig grow from the size of a chocolate chip to the size of a . . . fig. There are dozens on offer: stem-down, bottoms-up candy for strangers. But I keep walking. Someone might be looking out a window.
Continue reading “Forbidden Fruit (the Sidewalk Fig story)”
SIDEWALK NATURE 