Read more about the article Plans for the weekend? Why not join me, Jane Yolen and Stuart O’Nan for something I don’t entirely understand.

Plans for the weekend? Why not join me, Jane Yolen and Stuart O’Nan for something I don’t entirely understand.

For anyone interested and in the area, I will be appearing at the Brattleboro Literary Festival this weekend along with an enormous assemblage of far more interesting and well known…

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Read more about the article Plants can smell. Plants can see. Now plants are capable of evading predators and determining friend from foe.

Plants can smell. Plants can see. Now plants are capable of evading predators and determining friend from foe.

I have always secretly hoped that someday we would discover that plants are just as sentient as animals, and as a result, the ethical vegans of the world would be…

Continue ReadingPlants can smell. Plants can see. Now plants are capable of evading predators and determining friend from foe.