I love crows. According to The Genius of Birds, crows rival primates with their intelligence. They can make tools, solve puzzles, and recognize human faces—even passing this knowledge to new generations. Seriously.
But crows aren’t exactly beloved by all. Among other things, they are blamed for driving down songbird populations.…
Among my friends growing up, I was the only one who didn’t get an allowance. My friends would get some spending money weekly, sometimes in exchange for doing chores. I had to do tasks for free! Child abuse, right?
My parents weren’t too poor to give me an allowance; this was all part of their sinister plan.…
This is inspired by my good friend Ben Haller, who writes an annual letter and sends it out in December. I’m a little late and more long-winded. I’ll mostly pretend COVID doesn’t exist as we’re all tired of it.
Carrying over from 2019, Eric and I were deep into investigating moving to Portland.…
At one point recently, I had 23 parrots of 7 different species. How did I get here? I’ll start with an exchange with my Mom over Christmas:
Mom: So how many birds do you have now?
Me: I have 23
Mom: Oh, that’s not many
That should give you some insight into my family.…
I’ve had this idea for a long time to start a non-profit to promote bird keeping as a way to raise awareness about the plight of birds in the wild. Here is my business plan. I’m half hoping someone will just take it and run with it as it would be a huge undertaking.…