Let your childlike sense of wonder be your guide…you never know what you might find!   Nine-year-old Molly Sampson has dreamed of becoming a paleontologist for most of her life. She often hunts for fossils in Chesapeake Bay’s Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, with her father Bruce. And she’s always had one specific goal in mind: To find a tooth from a 15 million year old … [Read more...]

This Full Moon in the family-oriented sign of Cancer (Jan. 6, 2023, 3:07 pm PST) brings to mind a story from a 2018 trip to New Zealand. Jonny and I are standing in a tiny house, part of a museum in Okains Bay, a remote village on an out-of-the-way peninsula southeast of Christchurch. We’ve made a pilgrimage here to visit the general store, built by Jonny’s great grandfather … [Read more...]

Edwin Lusichi, head keeper at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, with a six-month-old orphaned baby elephant. Without their mothers, such calves have few survival skills and are vulnerable to despair. Once upon a time, when an elephant walked through  town with its keeper, the pachyderm’s trunk would tend to wreak havoc. Expressing the intelligent animal’s … [Read more...]

What will this Uranian eclipse bring? In The Call to Courage, now streaming on Netflix, researcher Brene Brown asserts that it’s impossible to be brave without being vulnerable. The tough-talking Texan, who came to fame in a 2010 viral Ted Talk on vulnerability, has made it her life’s work to dispel the deeply ingrained myth that this quality is a weakness – instead of our … [Read more...]

Photo courtesy of Muncie Fine Portraits Sarah and Dave Herbert are photographers with a studio in Muncie, Indiana that specializes in family portraits. With the help of their beloved cat Rory, they are experts in getting kids to sit still for a portrait. A three-year-old black cat who might be termed a “child whisperer,” Rory has saved many a shoot. For instance, the little … [Read more...]