-
Recent Posts
Blog Themes
- 7 billion
- 1969
- 1970's
- aging
- arana gulch
- beatles
- beer
- biodiversity
- bonobo
- California
- central coast
- chimpanzee
- circle of life
- climate change
- continental drift
- desalination
- drought
- Dryococelus australis
- everyday life
- evolution
- extinction
- female primate
- Frasier
- future scary mind
- global warming
- grandmas
- gravity
- happy new year
- high school memories
- highway widening
- hominin
- homo erectus
- human evolution
- human primate
- live oak
- Live Oak Avenue
- mah
- mah jongg
- meditation
- Mexican food
- old age
- primate
- Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line
- Schwan Lake Park
- science
- shedding
- sixth extinction
- St. Patrick's Day
- suicide
- tree lobster
- walking
- water
- whole earth restaurant
- women aging
Category Archives: Our Primate Nature
My Mother’s Spoons
I wasn’t born with one of these in my mouth, but I love using them to scoop up my morning Cheerios or the (occasional!) evening ice cream…in my home, they’re not hidden away. That’s the way it was for my … Continue reading
Burn5: Fired Up About Art
I’m an artist. Yep, you heard that right. I suspect ‘artist’ isn’t your primary association with this particular primate, but I’ve decided it’s time to paint a fuller picture of what makes us human. Because we all started out as … Continue reading
@redwood+vine
I know, artisan beers are all the rage these days, & for good reason. You can make beer anytime anywhere, it accepts a wide variety of flavorings, & it’s one of the most popular beverages in the world: only water … Continue reading
Burn4: Cooking with Fire
Can you imagine camping without campfires & grilled meat? No, me neither. Like, what’s the point of packing the tent & all the gear if there’s no flickering in the firepit as that lovely star of ours sinks flaming into … Continue reading
My Sore Tongue
I’ve spent a lifetime biting my tongue – I realize this may come as a surprise to some of you. Well, maybe not a lifetime…I was a kid once, long ago it seems. I’ve been observing this socialization process with … Continue reading
Posted in Cackling Crone, Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature
Tagged aging, bite your tongue, blogging, emotions, fine line, human primate, self-censoring, social media, tongue
6 Comments
Burn2: Burning the Fence
We humans lead complicated lives. It’s the way we like it. It’s what our large primate brain has been honed for. It’s just that, well – it’s just that sometimes it’s so exhausting. I can grasp (& I’m sure you can … Continue reading
Burn1: As the Bed Burns
Way back (!) in 2006, I started collecting news articles about melting glaciers, acid oceans, scary wildfires, & devastating floods. I (& of course a few others) felt that we (humans, collectively) weren’t paying enough attention to the ever-increasing evidence … Continue reading
Neandertals Are Us
When you’re a human evolution nerd like I am, you need to be discriminating about the source of your information. It’s sometimes eye-rolling how big media hears about some kind of research or fossil discovery & immediately morphs it into … Continue reading
Posted in Our Primate Nature
Tagged denisovans, evolution, genographic, human evolution, human primate, neanderthals, summer solstice
15 Comments
Dear Universe (Take 2):
Well isn’t that the way it is sometimes – you reach out to the universe &…nothing. Not even an answering machine. No chirpy message, “Hi there, this is God, sorry I’m not in at the moment but I’ll get back … Continue reading
Posted in Just an Everyday Life, Our Primate Nature
Tagged black hole, lutherans, meditation, mickey mouse, prayer, religion
10 Comments
the everyday primate 