You’re having one of those days. Your laptop starts acting up, and you cannot send that all-important email. Your car inexplicably breaks down. You cannot get any work done, because your writing software keeps freezing, and, well, there’s one interruption and distraction after another, all saved up for the very same morning. Admittedly, it feels…
Tag: Laysan albatross
On Walking and Resolutions.
At 3:00 in the afternoon on New Year’s Day, my FitBit tracker read a measly 785 steps. After a couple weeks of morning walks with my college roommate Linda, who was visiting and encouraged me with texts that went, What amazing place will we walk to today, I was close to failing to rack up…
One Albatross to Another: “Same time next year.”
Laysan albatrosses don’t roam the wide seas of the Pacific Ocean in flocks. They don’t even forage for flying fish and squid with their mates. What it comes down to is Laysan albatrosses travel through their watery world solo. That’s why they’re known as synchronous nesters. I counted 28 Laysan albatrosses on my survey this…
How Cool Is That: Laysan Albatrosses Return.
A Laysan albatross living on the remains of an island 1,200 miles northwest of Honolulu is the oldest-known bird living in the wild. Her name is Wisdom, and she is 63 years old. Wisdom was first banded in 1956 as an adult when she was estimated to be five years old. But she could just…
Plastic for Dinner? Sound Good?
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.” Alice Walker This week on Kauai, a whiff of white ginger caught me unawares while I was walking my two dogs before bed. My head whipped around as if I’d seen an old friend in a crowded airport. “It is you,” I said when…
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