“Sikinos, 41 square kilometres, with a permanent population of around 330, is the least developed of the larger Cycladic islands. This may be due to the fact that it didn’t have a ferry…

“Where does ownership take us? We need only investigate reality, based on recent trends, to see where we’re headed. And that place is to the edge of extinction. To the notion that might…

“They removed all the old trees. It looks like the sort of place you see everywhere now, with a Whole Foods and a Starbucks on the ground floor and badly made astronomically expensive…

“Form can’t hold me. My fleshy vessel contains too much./Metrics can suppress a message. To say, braves feats of strength./What does the Milky Way weigh? What is the meter of galaxy?/Through math, we…

“This being summer, the river was too warm for fishing today but that meant it was just right for sitting in it and contemplating the life that goes on along that contested riparian…

“Winters on the Greek islands are undeniably brutal, and not something prospective visitors will see pictured in the sunny travel brochures. So, when you have experienced the off-off-season in Greece for decades, and…

“I am sure some of my readers are still puzzled by the immured sonnet form, which I invented (for better or worse!) in the late 20th century. The original idea was to have…

“I was not a climate scientist. I still am not. I am reasonably knowledgeable about climate science, however. As part of my ecological research, I have been studying climate science since I was…

  “Unpacking, I realized with growing horror that my wallet had been stolen: a sickening and scary feeling of bereavement. After twice hunting through my rucksack and recognizing the inevitable, I phoned to…

“Driving out of the zoo’s parking lot, a student from Israel exclaimed, ‘Oh, look! There’s a peace pigeon.’ It was a mourning dove, of course, and then I had to explain why it…