When a glacier retreats, it leaves behind a land scrubbed clean of life. On barren rocks and humped moraines of leftover rocky debris there is no soil — only a fresh slate upon which to build a new world. From the 1300s to the 1850s, Earth experienced a Little Ice Age. Glaciers advanced on terrain […]
I was a Hawaii resistor. The kind who said, “I’m not a lie-on-the-beach person. It’s not at the top of my list.” Then one winter I accompanied my daughter’s gymnastics team to an invitational meet on the island of Oahu. Well, on that trip I discovered my truth about Hawaii. I was a fan! In […]
I’m not sure what first attracted me to Fiji, but whatever it was, the notion of visiting that far-off place with the resonant name had long been one of my most cherished travel dreams. So it was with no small degree of amazement, anticipation, and apprehension that I set foot with my wife on the […]