When I was a kid, I loved to pop the little bubbles in my bubble wrap. I'd work the entire sheet until every bubble was popped. Sometimes they were tiny little bubbles. Sometimes they were big fat bubbles. I felt great satisfaction with each "pop". These days, when I get…
{ Friday, November 2nd, 6 to 10 p.m.; Featuring Gary Young, David Sullivan, Wallace J. Nichols, Stephen Kessler, Brightside Band, Tan Dreams; Tannery Arts Center studios complex; Free; catamaranliteraryreader.com } By Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel It's been 28 years since the larger-than-life editor George Hitchcock closed down his Santa…
"In 1987, I was a nineteen-year-old biology student at DePauw University, a small liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana," Wallace J. Nichols writes in Catamaran Literary Reader, a new quarterly print magazine. The marine biologist and author, a 1989 DePauw graduate, offers an essay titled "Outré Banks of the Mind."…
Ends & Means, Pacific-Union Club November 1, 2012 Luncheon, Sponsored by Will Evers, Jr., Member of The Pacific-Union Club Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 12:00 PM (PDT), San Francisco, CA Why The Ocean Needs Neuroscientists, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, California Academy of Sciences Dr. Wallace J. Nichols believes that the…
First published Oct 2012 in the Catamaran Literary Reader, paintings by Ran Ortner. Outre' Banks of the Mind by Wallace J. Nichols outre' (oo’tre) adjective. Unusual and startling, violating convention or propriety: “in 1975 the suggestion was considered outre'—today it is orthodox.” ORIGIN French, literally “exceeded,” past participle of outrer…
