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Arkansas’ Cosmic Cavern
A fascinating cave with a quirky history.
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Holy Group Grumble, Batman!
Turns out that bats speak to each other as individuals.
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Lava River Cave
Nature. Awesome.
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Kartchner Caverns State Park, Arizona
Some of the most gorgeous cave formations on the planet.
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Avoiding Hell
Don’t get me wrong. I like bats. They’re great for the environment. I just don’t want to be roommates with them.
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Ever-So-Slightly Askew
Thud. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle… That’s what I heard. On my bed.
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Going Batty
So, it’s my second night in my new house. It’s 3a.m. I’m sound asleep. And then I hear this fluttering near my head. A moth? A really big moth? Then it zooms past my head 3 times and leaves the room. A bat. A bat! Mommy! My lovable yet useless dog is cowering in the…
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There Goes the Neighborhood
I’ve been house hunting, and I can tell, almost immediately, if I’d be a good fit for a neighborhood. If there are wide expanses of manicured lawns, I definitely will not fit in. And I would chafe under rules that dictated what color I paint my mailbox. I’m not a “keep up appearances” kind of…
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What are We Missing?
One of the things I find most annoying about all the drama being generated by our Grand Poobah and his malignant administration is the fact that it has helped to take our attention away from other atrocities in the world. Just the other day, I was wondering what had happened to the Kony 2012 Movement.…
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White-Nose Syndrome
We are currently experiencing the most dramatic decline of North American wildlife in over 100 years, and yet hardly anyone seems to be talking about it. According to the National Wildlife Health Center, since 2006, scientists estimate that 5.7 million bats have died on this continent. That’s a crap load of bats, people. Some species…