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This website will be where I post pictures of encounters with animals, and other bits and pieces of information I think you might enjoy or find interesting. Older pictures are in the Past Picture file.
That's my hand on the face of a baby gray whale. I'm in a sixteen foot-long panga (boat) in San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja, Mexico. For hundreds, if not thousands of years, gray whales have migrated 12,000 miles round-trip between Alaska and Baja. They winter in the warm waters of Mexico, have their calves, and then return to Alaska in the summer to feed. These lagoons were discovered by whalers in the early 1800s…keep reading.
Featured Novels
Girl Under Glass is the story of a rootless, rebellious young girl sinking deeper into juvenile delinquency. Given one more chance to avoid juvenile hall, a judge assigns her to community service with a cranky botanist studying plant communication. When he is beaten and left for dead, Kelsey must convince the lead detective that an entire greenhouse full of plants are witnesses to the crime, and she knows how to prove it.
Freeing Finch
The effort it takes Finch Delgado, a transgender girl, to earn the trust of an abandoned dog, helps her realize what she wants—acceptance, love, and to be part of a family, doesn’t always come from where you expect it.
Like Dust, I Rise
Little House on the Prairie meets Four Winds and the Great Circle in this Coming of Age novel of hope and heroism, set in Texas during one of America’s worst natural disasters—the Dust Bowl.
How to Speak Dolphin
Lily Moran must convince herself first and then her step-father that the budding relationship between his non-verbal autistic son and a captive dolphin…
Lost in the River of Grass
Based on the true story of my husband’s ill-fated airboat trip into the Everglades with his then girlfriend…
Hurt Go Happy
Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis has been deaf since the age of six, and is used to being left out of conversations…
The Outside of a Horse
Woven from true events, The Outside of a Horse is the story of a daughter's struggle to help her war veteran father deal with his wounds and PTSD through their shared love of horses…
Dolphin Sky
When the captive dolphins she has befriended are threatened, Buddy Martin risks her father's condemnation and the law to save their lives in this powerful story about a dyslexic child…
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, / I stand and look at them long and long. / They do not sweat and whine about their condition, / They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, / They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, / Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, / Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, / Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. -Walt Whitman, poet (31 May 1819-1892)