Population Matters

Two months ago I wrote about finding a family of cats along the trail in the Galápagos Islands. The beautiful kittens would grow up to be murderers of vulnerable animals such as the rare species of hawk unique to the Galápagos. It was with mixed feelings that I learned that a ranger would be dispatched [...]

Galápagos Hawk   “… the introduction of any new beast of prey must cause [extinction] in a country, before the instincts of the indigenous inhabitants have become adopted to the stranger’s craft or power.” Charles Darwin   We had just seen a Galápagos hawk soaring overhead when we heard an incongruous sound; here were cats [...]

Stick to Humor, Dr. Black “…the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.” Norman Borlaug, in his 1970 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech               I used to love to listen to Baxter Black on the radio. I admired his sense of humor and his human insight. Then I read [...]

“What does a woman want?” Sigmund Freud   Freud’s question obviously has many answers. Some women are happy with their role as wife and mother, the picture that some men still have of “the perfect woman”. My mother, who was born in 1903, decided her future when she was just eight. She told me that [...]