Some women defy fashion trends. Like in the late 1890s when Boston socialite and visionary Harriet Hemenway would go birding—wearing white sneakers. The woman didn’t stop with footwear. She refused to wear hats with feathers, wings, or taxidermied birds, and this time, instead of flouting the fashion of the day, she outright fought the killing…
Author: Kim Steutermann Rogers
Kim Steutermann Rogers lives with her husband and dog on the island of Kauai. She's a longtime freelance science journalist and author covering Hawaii's natural history and, periodically, Mark Twain. In between assignments, she writes fiction and nonfiction. She maintains a website at http://www.kimsrogers.com. You can find her on social media @kimsrogers.
In Honor of World Wildlife Day and My Bestie
Yesterday was World Wildlife Day. I celebrated by going SCUBA diving with my best friend who is visiting from frigid Detroit. A bit about World Wildlife Day: It’s one of the newest “world days” around, proclaimed as such on December 20, 2013 by the United Nations General Assembly. The intent behind the day is to…
Laysan Albatross Chicks: Home Alone.
Leaving any situation can be hard. Preparing to leave can be exhausting. When my husband and I moved to Hawaii over 15 years ago, we spent months getting the house in pristine condition in order to sell it. Painting. Re-carpeting. New roof. When the place went on the market, it was a more complete home…
#1000Speak: Compassion in Laysan Albatross.
We’ve had unusual winds blowing around Kauai the past couple weeks. First, they blew from various points out of the west, swinging around from the northwest and north-northwest to the southwest and south-southwest. It were as if a kid had grabbed the garden hose of wind and was swinging it over her head in great loops….
Seven Things Laysan Albatross Teach Us About Love.
Laysan albatross are the kind of bird with which we fall in love. They possess faces made from the strokes of an artist’s paint brush. They glide with their six-foot wings stretched taut and swoop in gentle arcs up and over ocean waves. Laysan albatross are the kind of birds that make us humans long for wings…
The Irony: Someone Stole Mark Twain’s Memorial Plaque.
Whoever stole the plague adorning a monument at Mark Twain’s grave last month had to climb a ladder to do so. At least, that’s what a local historian suspects, as reported by the Elmira Star-Gazette, since the monument itself stood at a height of 12 feet, the same measurement used by riverboat pilots to indicate…
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