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…
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…
“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 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 centerline of the Milky Way, we will see the release of an overblown ensemble epic by the man responsible for Godzilla and 10,000 BC that could very well end John Cusack’s career as we know it,” said Thomas Haney, an independent researcher specializing in pre-Columbian cosmology. “At this point, all we can do is hope and pray that the high priests were wrong and the running time is less than 143 minutes.” Hastening fears of an unstoppable late-fall disaster has been the discovery of a tablet depicting Mayan king Pacal storming out of a Loews cinema in disgust
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…
Red knots and Ruddy Turnstones at NJ’sEdwin Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (USFWS photo)
Back in the early 1800s, the naturalist Alexander Wilson visited Cape May, N.J. There, he…
“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…
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…
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…
I was researching the book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
The Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University Press and Swallow Press…
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…
About Me
Welcome to Ronkville. Established: 2007 Population: 1 (though we get a lot of visitors passing through) Before this autumn wind
even the shadows of mountains
shudder and tremble
O autumn winds,
tell me where I'm bound,
to which particular hell
~ ISSA
