Growing Bolder Community

Hallo Bay Camp reported a moderate number of bears yesterday. Took group two-thirds of the way to Big River in early afternoon. Showed them several "bear craters" in sand, close to shady alder patches against the cliffs. In the evening, we went to upper entrance of "cutoff" trail at meadow. One female blonde/brown bear fed within 40 yards. Whenever one of us moved we were threatened with...

I found a bit of the Gulf Shore at the bottom of my bedroom closet today. Thanksgiving dinner for about a dozen at my house is looming, and so I've got a little less than two and a half weeks to straighten the place up and pull this off. This was the first day I'd dropped Lucky the pup off at "doggie day-care" for a few hours of uninterrupted housework. He's so enthusiastic about staying right...

Typically in the past when I walked the beach I listened to my iPod. It could have been music of the 1950s, or maybe the Boss or Jimmy Buffett or Marc Cohn or John Mellencamp. And when I did, I usually shut out most of the world around me. I saw what was around me - sand, ocean, people, but I didn't observe them. However, on my recent daily walks, following my heart attack, I no longer wear my...

One of the greatest personality traits of the senior athlete is the "Don't give up," attitude. To most, it doesn't matter who finishes ahead or behind them. At the Games, you will find a lot of the loudest cheers are for those who may be the last to finish. But they are finishing and that's what matters most. I received the following Orange County Register article from my sister...

What a fitting place to tell of my third book: "Connected" how the stroke of a computer key changed a life. As a caregiver full of despair and loneliness, Rose Lamatt enters a chat room on the Internet for the first time. She finds a different world than the one she's used to. Night after night, she signs into the same chat room, meeting people who listen to her, people who are passionate,...

Why did the American government decline to accept Dutch expertise? They changed their minds later on! The BP disaster after the explosion of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was reason for the Dutch government to offer help, three days after the disaster took place. The Netherlands has ships with oil-skimming booms, they did a proposal for a plan to build sand barriers to...

It was a sunny, windy, cold (cool by northern stands) day for walking the beach today. The wind was out of the north at 15 to 20 mph; the 4 or 5 clusters of sea gulls had their beaks into the wind (who wants their tail feathers ruffled?). It was low tide which is the perfect time for walking since there is a wide expanse of sand, hard packed and fairly level. Being winter here in Florida, there...