One of the most persistent challenges I’ve faced as a naturalist is in how to pursue my field interests while also fulfilling all my responsibilities as a husband, father, and most recently care-giving child to an elderly, dementia-afflicted parent. Then, of course, to all these as also daily added the constant and seemingly ever-increasing demands […]
Melissa Harrison’s Seasons Anthology quartet has brought me many things since I first began reading it – among which have been delight, rejuvenation, and spiritual guidance, to mention only a few. It has also brought me into an awareness of the work of a number of truly superb contemporary nature writers, prominent among whom is Caroline Greville.