Daria Blackwell

And our first (and probably only) picnic on Inishoo in 2024. We caught two mackerel and no lobster, but the burgers and potatoes were a trea...

So much change this week. Biden is out, Kamala Harris is in. We have a more normal weather pattern, with sunshine alternating with showers. ...

29 June 2024, 70 years on earth! When I was a young woman in the 1970s, we lived by the mantra "better to burn out than to rust". ...

The Anthropocene is sometimes used to describe the time during which humans have had a substantial impact on our planet. Whether or not we a...

Human activity is killing nature at an unprecedented rate. We are now experiencing the consequences in the form of a possible sixth mass ext...

Climate Chaos  by Daria Blackwell Each day I search for evidence That life's going to be okay.  Instead I find new evidence of global or...

  I had a scare several weeks ago when I developed an infection in one of my front teeth that resulted in a tooth becoming loose. My dentist...