Tag: arizona

  • New Nonfiction – Space Mountain – Terrain.org

    About 10 years ago, I went hiking alone and met an intriguing hiking partner with an interesting past as an activist protesting an observatory on Mt Graham in Arizona. At the time, some of what the man said sounded far-fetched. Though he seemed nice enough, he had a gun. The gun, combined with frightening, paranoid-seeming…

  • Interview – Pima Community College – Community of Writers

    A few months back, my close friend, Sandra Shattuck, interviewed me for Pima Community College’s Community of Writing series. We talk about writing, ecology, educational economics, teaching, science fiction, and more. I discuss some of my stories, too. It was fun to think about Sandra’s prompts and I’m so grateful to her Southwest Literature students…

  • YouTube – Nature Videos and Synthesizers

    A few years back, I caught some footage of a tarantula hawk wasp harassing a large desert tarantula. The wasps use paralyzed spiders as hosts for their larval young, which feed on the still-living spiders, carefully devouring around essential organs what would kill their arachnid hosts. Creepy stuff. In this video, the spider gets away.…