*This photo is NOT the cover image I refer to, but another image from the same trip, taken by my husband. To view…

The winter mornings are lethargic and slow to shake off the night. I wake in darkness to the deep throbbing hum of the…

Shuffling in my warm sleeping bag, I wondered who had slept on this small wooden bed before me. Who had seen out dark,…

At an industry trade show, a Canadian salesman tried to convince me of the benefits of small portable nuclear reactors for power generation…

Camping with polar bears makes me nervous. So I was nervous a lot in my three weeks camping and working in the northeast…

Apparently our house has good feng shui. The front windows look to sea and the back windows onto this mountain. I don’t know…

“Well, that’s the bears sorted out then,” said my colleague, as he finished setting up the bear alarm around our field camp in…

“There’s something a bit odd about taking a loaded gun to the toilet,” my colleague rightly noted. That’s what I’ve been doing this…