Selected Writings

Podcast
On my podcast, "Because Nature Tells Me So," I read from some of my essays and other writings.

News and Features

• Stories on sustainability, environment, farming, and municipal issues for The Bucks County Herald.

Essays

• “Nature’s Way,” column in The Bucks County Herald (Oct. 11, 2006 to date); The Doylestown Patriot (through July 13, 2006):
  
  • “Dawnsong and Sundance”; (May 8, 2008)>BR>
  • “Fruit on the Floor” (Oct. 18, 2007)
    
  • “E Pluribus Unum” (Aug. 23, 2007)
    
  • “I Know Where the Bees Went” (June 28, 2007)
    
  • “To See the World in a Grain of Pollen” (May 24, 2007)
    
  • “Snowfates” (March 22, 2007)
    
  • “Night and Day” (January 18, 2007)
    
  • “Perchance to Dream” (Dec. 7, 2006)
    
  • “Now Playing” (Oct. 11, 2006)
    
    • reprinted in The Area Guide Book 2007
  • “Into the Damp”(July 13, 2006)
    
  • “I Feel A Song Coming On” (June 1, 2006)
    
  • “At Your Service” (April 20, 2006)
    
  • “A Fete for the Fetid“ (March 2, 2006)
    
  • “Smooth or Chunky?” (January 19, 2006)
    
  • “Here's Looking At You” (December 8, 2005)
    
  • “Leaves, Leaving” (December 3, 2004)
    
  • “Warm Fuzzies” (October 28, 2004)
    
  • “Along the riverrun” (September 30, 2004)
    
  • “The Weight of Water” (August 19, 2004)
    
  • “The Larva Ascending” (July 15, 2004)
    
  • “Wrong is Right” (July 1, 2004)
    
  • “Golden Locks and Red Sox” (May 20, 2004)
    
  • “In the Flow” (April 1, 2004)
    
  • “Hold That Thought” (February 26, 2004)
    
  • “A Winter’s Tale” (January 15, 2004)
    
  • “Pick-up Sticks” (December 11, 2003)
    
  • “The Power of Place” (November 6, 2003)
    
  • “Salute the Colors” (September 25, 2003)
    
  • “Katy Did It” (August 28, 2003)
    
  • “Wait and See” (July 24, 2003)
    
  • “Mind the Gap” (June 26, 2003)
    
  • “Mother of Us All” (May 22, 2003)
    
  • “Stop the World” (April 17, 2003)
    
  • “Of Bark and a Bird” (March 14, 2003)
    
  • “Winter Remainder” (February 13, 2003)
    
  • “Snowmelt and Memory” (December 26, 2002)
    
  • “The Untouchables” (November 7, 2002)
    
  • “El Dorado” (October 10, 2002)
    
  • “In the Shade Pool” (August 22, 2002)
    
  • “Today’s Model” (July 5, 2002)
    
  • “Rabbit, Rabbit” (June 13, 2002)
    
  • “Fly in the Ointment” (May 2, 2002)
    
  • “Wild Beauty” (April 18, 2002)
    
  • “Dance at Dusk” (March 14, 2002)
    
  • “Cries of the Heart” (February 7, 2002)
    
  • “True Friends” (January 24, 2002)
    
  • “Slow Motion” (December 10, 2001)
    
  • “Book of Revelations” (November 8, 2001)
    
  • “What Lies Between” (October 11, 2001)
    
  • “Dealing with Forever” (September 6, 2001)
    
  • “Play’s the Thing” (August 16, 2001)
    
  • “Lunch Break” (July 26, 2001)
    
  • “Why Did the Turtle Cross the Road?” (June 28, 2001)
    
  • “What’s Happening in an ‘Empty Field’” (June 14, 2001)
    

• “The Nature of Bucks,” column in The Bucks County Herald:
  • “Keep a-Going: Dark Hollow Park” (November 15, 2007)
    
  • “Nothing Doing: Great Blue Herons at Quakertown Swamp” (April 19, 2007)
    
  • “Frozen Time: High Falls at Ringing Rocks Park” (February 8, 2007)
    
  • “A View From the Bridge” (December 21, 2006)
    
  • “Manderfield Preserve” (November 9, 2006)
    
  • “Giving Pond Recreation Area” (August 24, 2006)
  • “Meadow and Woods at Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve” (August 17, 2006)
  • “Church View Drive area in Nockamixon State Park” (May 25, 2006)
    
  • “Point Pleasant Community Park” (April 20, 2006)
    
  • “The Wilma Quinlan Nature Preserve” (February 23, 2006)
    
  • “Top Rock Trail” (January 5, 2006)
    

• “The Power of Placement” (2007)
  
• “Trees in Space,” Bucks County Herald, May 12, 2005
  (also see Planting a Tree In My Honor)
  
• “At Home in the Wild: Creating a Backyard Habitat,” Bucks County Herald, September 2, 2004 (pt. 1)
  
• “The Lena’pe and the Irradiator: A Tale of Renewal,” Bucks County Herald, November 20, 2003
  

Articles

• “Birdman of Bucks,” Pennsylvania Magazine, Jan/Feb 2008
  
• “Liesegang Banding in Tennessee Sandstone,” The Tennessee Conservationist, July/August 2006
  
• “Information Technology: Beyond the Toolbox,” Special Libraries, Fall 1995, p. 265-271. (Winner, 1996 SLA-H.W. Wilson Award for best article published in Special Libraries.)
  
• “The Constitutionality of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act,” Columbia Law Review, 1983, pp. 727-754.
  
• “Editorial Discretion of State Public Broadcasting Licensees,” Columbia Law Review, 1982, pp.1161-1182.
  

Fiction

• “Fifty-Fifty,” Quantum Muse, May 2006

Poems

• At This Writing
  
• The Presence of Absence
  
• For Columbia
  

Business and Educational Communication

• Employee newsletter articles, brochures, environmental report for Fortune 500 company
• Chapters on sustainability and climate change for high school earth science textbook

Miscellany

• “SiteSense,” Website capsule reviews - Nov. 2000 to Dec. 2002: See the 2002, 2001 and 2000 sets. I originated this column/blog; it's now being carried on by a successor, and I don't vouch for the technical quality of this archive.
  
  
• Reviews and articles published on LLRX.com
  
  • “A Roundup of News-filtering Tools,” Sept. 15, 2000
    
  • “Tech Tip: Dynamic Dates in Westlaw Intranet Links,” Feb 1, 2000
    
  • “Product Review: Westlaw Find & Print 3.2 for Windows,” August, 1999
    
  • “A Review of West’s Intranet Toolkit,” March 15, 1999
    
  • “Product Review: SurfSaver,” Oct. 1, 1998
    
  • “Product Review: SnagIt,” July 1, 1998