#1 Tip for Attracting Birds to your Backyard
I’ve planted natives, added water features, and put out bird seed in the hopes of attracting birds to my backyard. As a result, my California cottage garden is full of […]
Becoming an Animal Communicator – Is it Real?
I’m sitting in a circle of women (and one man) in a living room lined with overstuffed chairs, small porcelain replicas of cats and dogs, and flowered wall-paper. A golden […]
Being Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall’s birthday is April 3rd. She will be 88. By that time in life, most people have chosen to retire, slow down and live a more quiet life. But being […]
Becoming The White Masai
While reading The White Masai several years ago, I was shocked by the author’s decision to leave her home in Germany to marry a Masai man and acclimate to his culture […]
How Touching Whales Helped Me Get A Divorce
When one of the largest animals in the world surfaces within two feet of my kyak, and people scream from the upper deck of a nearby Santa Barbara, California whale- […]
My Inconvenient Journey for More
This year is all about me embracing inconvenience. And fear. Challenging myself. I have moved out of my comfort zone into completely unknown, inconvenient territory. And I ’m anxious. If […]
The Rock with an Elephant Soul
My safari guide says, “there’s a rock painting” he wants to show me. I’m in the Northern Rangelands region of Kenya, staying at Sarara and their newer sister camp, The […]
George Schaller Doesn’t Deal in Hope
George Schaller is a conservation nomad. He has saved more species in more countries than any other wildlife conservationist I can think of. I was honored to sit down with […]
“Our Wild World” Inspirational Interview
Are you depressed about the state of the planet and its wildlife? In this inspirational interview on the radio show Our Wild World, Eli Weiss and Lori Robinson offer practical antidotes for feelings of […]
How Permaculture is Saving Kenya’s Wildlife
Last year while traveling in East Africa I met an exceptional young man, permaculture practitioner George Kaberia. He is a 35 year-old Kenyan who is saving wildlife and wild places […]