https://videopress.com/v/6EfvBtyA?preloadContent=metadata This weekend only (Saturday, Sunday, and Monday) the first book of the Silver Web Trilogy, EOLYN, is available free on Amazon Kindle! Be sure to take advantage of this limited time offer and download your Kindle copy today. SYNOPSIS: In a land ravaged by civil war, the Mage King initiates a ruthless purge of... Continue Reading →
Midsummer Dreams
Covid19 reminded me that cultivating dreams is still, and has always been, at the center of what we should consider "practical."
Sword of Shadows FREE on Kindle
This weekend only - Friday, Saturday, and Sunday - you can download my novel Sword of Shadows for free on Kindle. Eolyn battles underworld demons in SWORD OF SHADOWS Synopsis: Eolyn returns home after a bitter war. Together with her small coven, she begins the hard work of restoring women’s magic. Bound by love for... Continue Reading →
It’s Okay to Pull Back (Or, Confessions of a Would-Be Entomologist)
Cup traps proved very effect for sampling early spring native bees. Friday, I met my student, Gabrielle, on a frosty spring morning to set up traps for her capstone project. Gabrielle is following up on work begun last year assessing the impact of stem nester refugia on native bee communities in prairie remnants at Jerry... Continue Reading →
Free Read Fridays: Brothers in Magic
I'm testing the waters with some video content on my Instagram account. Called "Free Read Fridays," each episode will include a brief (1-minute) reading from a randomly selected page in my novel EOLYN. I will occasionally cross-post here, but the best way to catch Free Read Fridays is to follow me on Instagram. This week's... Continue Reading →
Year of Gratitude 2021
Eolyn introduces young Briana to the power, abundance, and magic of the forest. Detail from Daughter of Aithne. Artwork by Tom Vandenberg. Even as we continue deep inside the pandemic, 2021 has brought signs of hope. As of this post, new case numbers have dropped dramatically. Campaigns for vaccination are gathering momentum. D.C. politics, despite... Continue Reading →
Farewell, 2020
Our classic interdisciplinary course Ecology Through the Writers Lens ran under a different format this year, with local day trips instead of week-long overnight visit to the Flint Hills. Of course, everyone masked up. Photo by Amy Milakovic. As this extraordinary year winds down, I find myself reflecting not so much on what 2020 took... Continue Reading →
School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Avila U
On some of the many reasons I'm happy and excited to become Chair of the School of Natural and Applied Sciences (SNAS) at Avila University. #AvilaProud #AvilaSTEM #AvilaSNAS
(Re)Connecting Wild
The woodland sunflower in full bloom. Look closely and you'll see a native bee (family Halictidae). I promised I'd share some inspiring stories from NACCB2020, so this week I'm embedding the short film (Re)Connecting Wild from NineCaribou Productions. (Re)Connecting Wild documents the efforts of the Nevada Department of Transportation and partners to re-connect an historic... Continue Reading →
Virtual Inspiration
Filmmaker Jake Willers talks about the making of (Re)Connecting Wild at the 2020 North American Conference for Conservation Biology By February of this year, when Covid-19 was just making its presence known in the U.S., my summer calendar was booked. Early June, I planned to attend the Society for Ecological Restoration's (SER) global conference in... Continue Reading →
