In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country by Kim BarnesPoet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great sheltering power of the wilderness. But in the mid 1960's, as automation and a declining economy drove more and more loggers out of the wilderness and into despair,

Young Sycamore

Nature-Deficit Disorder and the Restorative Environment

Mending Wall

Now We Are Six lovingly returns to the world of Christopher Robin and his friends

and willow

and Farm Anatomy

Like a Thief

Individual bug groups (ants

-began in elementary school when Katie craved a consistent

and gives unique rewards when it is healthy and balanced

or thoughtful gift

She lives with her husband on Lummi Island