October 2009
Timewave 2012 →
Last weekend, I wrote about Terence McKenna who I was reading because of some 2012 references he had made in his books and talks. Most of that was not connected to the more well known (at least…
Lawsuit Claims Wind Energy Project Would Kill... →
Indiana bat roosting under shedding bark Photo: Bat Conservation International via www.srs.fs.usda.gov
Organizations opposed to a wind energy project in West Virginia are using the…
Poetry - What Sells? →
I clicked a link today to the Poetry Bestsellers on Amazon.com and was surprised by the results (which change every hour). Surprise #1: A lot of Kindle versions of classics…
Teachers Writing About Teaching →
I’m reading Pat Conroy’s newest book, South of Broad, this week, but I looked back on my bookshelf at his books and remembered when I first encountered him. It was the book, …
Essex County Environmental Center →
The Essex County Environmental Center is a facility of the Essex County Park System. It is located in West Essex Park which stretches along six miles of the Passaic River starting at…
The Twilight Zone →
This month is the 50th anniversary of The Twilight Zone’s debut on American television. The Twilight Zone was one of my favorite childhood TV programs - even when I watched it with my…
17th Annual Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway in... →
It’s hard to believe that Peter Murphy has been doing this for 17 years. Not your typical writers’ conference. The 17th Annual Winter POETRY & PROSE GETAWAY in Cape May is right on the on the…
Teaneck Creek Conservancy →
In 2001 an eclectic group of environmentalists, artists, and educators joined forces with the Puffin Foundation to rescue a small parcel of land in the southernmost portion of Teaneck, NJ. The…
Terence McKenna in December 2012 →
I was reading some more this past week about the 2012 theories and came back to some writings by Terence McKenna.
Terence McKenna has a kind of spaced-out hippie reputation, but he was a very…
You Have Mail, But For How Long? →
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
It’s not the U.S. Postal Service’s motto. It goes back 2500…
Mayan Calendar Warns Of Cataclysmic Film on Nov.... →
Mayan Calendar Warns Of Cataclysmic Roland Emmerich Film On Nov. 13, 2009
CHICHÉN ITZÁ, MEXICO—Scholars of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar warned Monday that, according to ancient Mayan calculations, a devastating film by German director Roland Emmerich is set to occur on Nov. 13, 2009. “On this date, near the end of the 13th baktun cycle, when the sun will converge with the...
Greenwood Forest and Pasadena Wildlife Management... →
In our continuing series on Wildlife Management Areas and Wildlife Viewing Areas in NJ, today we look at The Greenwood Forest/Pasadena Wildlife Management Area. This WMA is in Burlington and Ocean…
The Amazing Journey of Red Knots to New Jersey →
Red knots and Ruddy Turnstones at NJ’s Edwin Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (USFWS photo)
Back in the early 1800s, the naturalist Alexander Wilson visited Cape May, N.J. There, he…
Salting the Ocean →
“How should we use poetry?” people sometimes ask poet Naomi Shihab Nye. She responds, “Read it! Share it with one another! Find poems that make you resonate. Different poems will do this…
Colony Collapse: Are Potent Pesticides Killing... →
Follow up to earlier post on CCD Colony collapse disorder (CCD) has wreaked havoc on U.S. beekeeping businesses (and the agriculture industry) since its devastating arrival in 2006. The veiled…
New Century Poetics and Poets Online →
Today is the New Century Poetics: A Poetry Colloquium at Centenary College of New Jersey. I am presenting in a session on “Resources and Publication Options” along with Peter Murphy, poetry…
Sustainable Seafood →
I was researching the book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss for a post on another blog recently and came across the Smithsonian Institution’s …
Intention Experiment: The Yankees →
In case you’re wondering about this because you live outside the United States (I know Vox readers span the globe) - it’s baseball World Series time here and my team - the…
Poetry Contest Deadlines →
Here are some opportunities to mail that poem, chapbook or full-length collection before the end of the year. The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University Press and Swallow Press…
Fat Wallet Syndrome →
Fat wallet syndrome. It’s not an economic condition. I didn’t even know it was a condition until I was listening to an interview on Fresh Air with author Michael Chabon and he mentioned…
““Isn’t it beautiful,” the priest asked the master…
The master nodded....”
– A List Apart: Articles: The Elegance of Imperfection
Which God? →
I came across a 2006 Baylor University survey that polled Americans about their beliefs in God, including God’s characteristics and behavior.
The idea was to analyze the results and determine how…
It's Not Just Oprah →
Oprah likes a book. People buy the book. Simple economics. But it’s not just Oprah. There’s also a Dan Brown effect. Dan Brown’s books - Angels and Demons, The DaVinci Code,…
The Fyke Nature Association →
The Fyke Nature Association was founded in 1952 by a group of people strongly dedicated to saving undeveloped tracts of land in Bergen County, New Jersey as nature preserves. Fyke has not…
Writing Your Way Home - A Poetry Intensive Weekend →
WRITING YOUR WAY HOME a poetry weekend intensive at an English manor house in Mendham, New Jersey Join poets Laura Boss and Maria Mazzioti Gillan on Friday,…
The Swell Season →
Back in 2007, I saw the low-budget indie musical Once and was surprised and taken away by it. Glenn Hansard and young Czech singer Marketa Irglova played the struggling musicians who start…
You Looking At Me? →
Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film Taxi Driver is now free to watch on YouTube. That came as a surprise to me. You can click here and watch this classic film (starring Robert DeNiro, Jodie…
Climate Change for Blog Action Day →
Today is Blog Action Day. It’s an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. This year…
What Are The Walruses Telling Us? →
Image: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Have you ever heard the expression “a canary in a coal mine”? Early coal mines did not have ventilation systems, so miners would…
Me Wii? →
I see they dropped the price on the Wii game console. Should I buy one? I there really any true fitness to using this thing? Read and post comments | Send to a friend
6th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival →
The 6th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival will be held January 18-23, 2010 at the Old School Square Cultural Arts Center in Delray Beach, Florida. Their faculty includes advanced…
Microsoft Office Winter Games Contest For Bloggers →
Want to win a free pass for a week at the winter Olympics, plus a new laptop with Office 2010, and a free trip to the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas? The Microsoft Office…
NJ Landscape Project Training and Information... →
Come learn about the NJ DEP Division of Fish and Wildlife’s geographic information system (GIS) approach to mapping endangered and threatened wildlife habitat throughout New Jersey. The Landscape…
Will The Real-Time Web Drive Real-Time Education? →
ReadWriteWeb ran a series of posts
recently on what they feel are the 5 big cutting edge Web trends this year. Their predictions for the year from
last fall were as accurate as these things…
Winter Cover →
I’m looking out the window at my vegetable garden and thinking about the first frost coming the next week or two. I actually enjoys clearing out the dead and dying plants and turning the soil one…
Irving Penn
Photographer Irving Penn died this week at age 92. His career took off just after World War II, when advertising, publishing and celebrity itself demanded photographs that could convey the message that ever more alluring commodities were being produced for a world growing more remarkable every day. Penn delighted in the art of illusion, but he let you see what goes on behind the scenes. He used...
Poe’s Funeral Is Today. Again. →
Poor misunderstood Edgar Allan Poe. This year is the 200th anniversary of his birth and there have been a number of events at Poe places. One such event occurs today.
160 years ago, Edgar Allen Poe…
Black Moon →
You probably haven’t heard of the term “black moon” before. In astronomy or popular culture, the term black moon is not well-known or much used, but it’s an interesting oddity.
I could not find a…
Students for a Free Tibet Challenge →
Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) entered SFT’s Facebook Cause - Tibetan Freedom Movement – into this year’s Causes Giving Challenge: http://causes.com/sft?m=566209a4 Thanks to your…
Anything New At iTunes U? →
Since my last iTunes U post, things
have been pretty quiet in there. Colleges continue to add content, but nothing very dramatic has changed. Still, I
suspect many of you have not…
Palisades Interstate Park →
Palisades Interstate Park and its creator, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, was formed in 1900 by governors Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Foster M. Voorhees of New Jersey in…
Merwin and Neruda →
Merwin reads his poem “Yesterday” in this excerpt of video from the Bill Moyers programs on poetry recorded at the Dodge Poetry Festivals. (You should watch it all - but Merwin appears at the 5:30…
W.S. Merwin - I Have Lost None Of It →
I had read poems by W.S. Merwin before I actually heard him read in person. But seeing and hearing him at one of the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festivals is what really got me to get his…
Tracking Trends →
Though this post is about a trend, I did not put it in that category on the blog because I see it as more of a classroom
opportunity. The flu season is all over the news this week, and here’s a good…
Flu Info →
Swine Flu Info
Pablo Neruda →
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring...
