The Last Word On Nothing | Forest gardens are the coolest gardens
I could never hack it as a farmer, and the thought of living as a hunter-gatherer...
The Last Word On Nothing | Orchid Care for the Uncertain
I wrote this post in 2019, when I was feeling prickly and uncertain–not too different than...
The Last Word On Nothing | So Long, and Thanks for All the Canids
Lately I’ve been a bit lax about my camera trapping — dead batteries, neglected cameras, etcetera...
The Last Word On Nothing | Science Metaphors (cont.): Touchstone
Last Friday, Sarah used “touchstone” as a metaphor. I think she uses the metaphor — you...
The Last Word On Nothing | Composite
All original art by the author. This post originally appeared September 13, 2024
The Last Word On Nothing | Oh Wow: An Exercise in Certainty
Key:* = Pretty darn sure** = Scientists are making some educated guesses here Hundreds of millions...
The Last Word On Nothing | By the wind sailors
This post first appeared in March 2023. I can’t wait to go to the beach again....
The Last Word On Nothing | Maybe Good Things Will Happen – II
Ed. note: Yes, certainly, parts of last year were pretty bad, yes, we noticed that. But...
The Last Word On Nothing | Maybe Good Things Will Happen – I
Ed. note: Yes, certainly, parts of last year were pretty bad, yes, we noticed that. But...
The Last Word On Nothing | Not Everything Is Terrible, Poetry Edition
* Text: If You Were Looking for a Sign, This Is It Yesterday was hard. The...
The Last Word On Nothing | Not Everything Is Terrible, Volume 2
Ed. note: Now, even more than last year, it’s easy to believe that literally every single...
The Last Word On Nothing | Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays Uponst Us All
And the People of LWON, on this day, are taking a break. They will be back,...
The Last Word On Nothing | Parts of It Were Pretty Bad
Jenny: It’s the first full year without my dad, which makes my heart hurt. And then...
The Last Word On Nothing | My Favorite Books of 2024
Something funny happened during the time that I spent writing my book: I stopped reading for...
The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot: Moss
Here’s some moss I saw on a recent walk along the Thames River, west of London....
The Last Word On Nothing | This, Too, is a Dog’s Life
As I was researching and writing DOG SMART, trying to understand what it means to think...
The Last Word On Nothing | The Archaeology of You
This post ran back in 2018 and digging it up was another act unearthing oneself, something...
The Last Word On Nothing | Cavewomen with Backpain Take Revenge
I’ve suffered from migraines my whole adult life—two day-long affairs that I would slog through with...
The Last Word On Nothing | Our Moon
Last week, Ann wrote about her moon epiphany and Our Becky’s book (Ann: “Our Moon, you...
The Last Word On Nothing | Thanks for Basking
Last week I found myself on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu, part of — I swear!...
The Last Word On Nothing | Moon Not Shining of Its Own Light
I was reading Becky’s beautiful book (Our Moon, you know the one, lead review in the...
The Last Word On Nothing | Dancing in the streets
This is the game my older son and I played one weekend a few years ago....
The Last Word On Nothing | Rosa and the Lighthouse
In December of 2019 I visited Maine to see if it might be a good place...
The Last Word On Nothing | Needs washed
I took this photo in the veterinary lab at the Duke Lemur Center in October, on...
The Last Word On Nothing | Season of the Snood
Today, I give thanks for the snood. My amusement begins with the word itself, which rhymes...
The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot: Farewell, Stump Mountain
Last month I wrote about maps and dog walks and grief and stuff, and I illustrated...
The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot: The Penguins at Twilight
For the past month or so I have been in Argentina at Punta Tombo, a large...
The Last Word On Nothing | What Happens in the Wild
I’ve been setting up wildlife cameras at natural pinch points and along trackways to see what’s...
The Last Word On Nothing | The Canadian Canoe Museum
My father and I spent many of my childhood summers canoeing Ontario’s lake systems, counting moose...
The Last Word On Nothing | What Could Go Wrong?
This post first appeared in 2016, but I started thinking about it today while I was...
The Last Word On Nothing | A Brief Tribute to Karsten Heuer
One October morning in 2013, I walked into the Canmore offices of an organization called the...
The Last Word On Nothing | Conversation: Richard & the Pillars of Creation
ANN: Richard Panek has just published a book called The Pillars of Creation. It’s about the...
The Last Word On Nothing | In the Pocket
We (me, Pete, the baby) have had a wicked mystery cold going for 10 days and...
The Last Word On Nothing | A Leaf on the Wind: On Election Terror and Golden Trees
The maple tree across the street is shivering. Just this morning, she’d stopped my breath with...
The Last Word On Nothing | Cross-Country Skiing: A Halloween Tradition on Grand Mesa
Today (October 29), I went skiing for the first time this season. Yesterday I drove up...
The Last Word On Nothing | Wish Ewe Were Here
Helen: Well, Cameron! Hello! Here we are again! I’m so glad we’re back two years after...
The Last Word On Nothing | What the Kids Are Doing
The kids aren’t doing this any more. I miss it. I still have random people asking...
The Last Word On Nothing | Released
She was in the narrow shed, on a high shelf, in a cardboard box advertising Dole...
The Last Word On Nothing | Synchronicity
I believe. I don’t know in what exactly, but something is happening out there, gears and...
The Last Word On Nothing | Voice Mails from the Great Beyond
On the morning my friend Kristina died, I listened and re-listened to the last voice mail...
The Last Word On Nothing | Once Upon a Phylogeny
This post first appeared in 2013. My dancing shoes no longer have heels, but at least...
The Last Word On Nothing | Snapshot – Er, SnapVideo: Post-Spawn
On a salmon walk last week, a friend and I encountered this battered, spawned-out chinook in...
The Last Word On Nothing | The Evidence of the Senses
Bear with me on this, please and thank you, I’m trying to think something through. Amy...
The Last Word On Nothing | Look up
On May 10, I leave my house in northern Washington state just after dawn. I drive...
The Last Word On Nothing | Infantile Amnesia
This summer, my parents pulled out an ancient family VHS tape and we all gathered around...
The Last Word On Nothing | I Did It Dad! I LOVE This!
I’d been pondering the consequences of modern self-chronicling when Facebook sent me its rendering of my...
The Last Word On Nothing | Redrawing the map
When I was in 8th grade – I think it was 8th grade – we had...
The Last Word On Nothing | Out of time
Call no man happy until he is dead. The phrase is a bit like an optical...
The Last Word On Nothing | My Brilliant (ADHD) Friend
My dear friend “P” is a bit of a nut. She’s always doing a million things...
