by toby | May 27, 2019 | Life
Robocalls. Yeah, those. Ring. Ringgggg. RINGGGGGGG. I reach over to my nightstand, fumbling my sleep mask up to see who’s calling my (very private) cell…and the glowing screen shows a random row of numbers, origin Lithuania. This time, I put the phone on silent and...
by toby | Feb 3, 2018 | Life
Why libraries? Because libraries rock. Libraries nurture. Libraries uplift and stimulate, shelter and educate. In writing my upcoming memoir, FRECKLED: Growing up Wild in Hawaii, I was able to see how many times “going to the library” provided a...
by toby | Jun 6, 2017 | Life, Traveling
Tomales Bay in May: RV Life The next time we take the trailer out, we go to the coast. Applying the lesson we learned the hard way, we check the weather beforehand, which should be sunny and in the fifties and sixties. We pack accordingly and go to a place we scouted...
by toby | Sep 20, 2016 | Conservation, Life
Sighting a wild wolf in Canada is a haunting thing. Seated in our brightly colored plastic Adirondack chairs on the deck, watching the river at low tide and sipping our morning beverages, a howl from the other side of the river lifted the hair on the backs of our...
by toby | Sep 18, 2016 | Life
The next three days are rainy: and by this I mean a soft but relentless moisture as if the pewter clouds have lowered to earth and spread themselves at various densities across the land. The sound of water trickling in all its forms takes on the quality of a timpani...
by toby | Sep 16, 2016 | Life, Traveling
Hunting chanterelles in the forest of Canada was only one of the interesting activities of Day Three of our vacation in British Columbia. I see the men off for their fishing adventure, which consists of me bumbling into the kitchen for hugs and more hugs and then...