SANTA CRUZ — While most people seem to appreciate the beauty of the sea, many treat it like a huge garbage dump. This behavior is building up a toxic amount of plastics in the ocean that could one day endanger the sea, all sea life and humanity itself.Local resident Fran…
by Catherine Clarke Fox Sea turtles have been on Earth for millions of years, but they are in danger of going extinct. The main threat to them is people who kill them for food, according to Dr. Wallace J. Nichols of the California Academy of Sciences and The Ocean Conservancy.But…
Our second children’s book, currently in search of a publisher. The story is based loosely on the Japanese folktale Urashima Taro. Illustrations by Ket Tom-Conway, a wonderful Santa Cruz, CA artist and fellow ocean-lover. Proceeds from this book will benefit youth ocean education projects. Please add a comment below with…
Japan Train II The man in the blue uniform And the formal hat Stands straight in his white gloves At the back of the train. Kumatori, next stop, he says Along with some other polite words (polite sounding, to me, that is). In his punctual shoes And his punctual haircut…
I wrote these few sparse words down in the form of a rough poem shortly after meeting my biological father for the first time some years ago. This week he visited me in California for the first time and we’ve exhausted ourselves trying to share a lifetime of stories. I…
