These are some of my favorites.
Author
A world without styrofoam to chew: News-Journal
July 11, 2007
OPINION: Editorial
July 11, 2007
A world without Styrofoam to chew
By WALLACE J. NICHOLS
Special to The News-Journal
"What's plastic foam, Grandpa?"
Some day I'll be an old guy, like my father and his father. And my granddaughters will ask me questions like "what's plastic foam?" and "what's a
The Secret Society of Waves: Ocean Magazine
July 10, 2007
The Secret Society of Waves
I’ll bet in the secret culture of waves that they have a lot of names that start with "ts" and that they throw cotillions for the little ones to learn how to dance and dance and bow and dance some more--back and forth and back and forth.
Some waves end in ts and
Defying Oceans End: Narco article
Sunday, May 6, 2007
World Environment Also Victim of Drug Addicition
The goal of the U.S.-backed war on drugs is to stop cocaine and heroin produced in South America from traveling north through Mexico and into the bloodstreams of Americans. Yet after spending tens of billions of dollars in recent decades there’s
Adelita’s Journey: Screenplay
Monday, April 30, 2007
Adelita’s Journey is a script based on the true story of the world’s most famous sea turtle. It portrays the epic journey of discovery told through one animal’s quest for family, survival and meaning. Adelita faces grave danger such as the evil Mr. Foody, the greedy owner of an ocean-
You can’t stop the ocean: Ocean Magazine
Monday, April 16, 2007
You can’t stop the ocean
We were trying to stop the ocean.
You can’t stop the ocean.
She wanted to understand love.
You can’t stop the ocean.
They walked day and night.
You can’t stop the ocean.
He couldn’t sleep.
You can’t stop the ocean.
Their words burned through.
You
Parts of poems
April 13, 2007
Two thoughts and pieces of a poem:
April 1992 Journal page
I’ve always written about the ocean, the sea, nature, places near the sea as if they were a lover, a person, a dear friend. In this case after nearly drowning in the surf near Cape Hatteras.
Neruda personified the sea so well in
Chelonia: Return of the sea turtle
Monday, January 1, 2007
Chelonia has been reprinted in paperback and is now available in both English and Spanish. It was published by Sea Challengers Press, Monterey, CA.
It’s no exaggeration to say that this is the project I’ve enjoyed working on the most. Reading this story to kids around the world warms my
Taro and the Magic Turtle
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Our second children’s book, currently in search of a publisher. The story is based loosely on the Japanese folktale Urashima Taro. Illustrations by Ket Tom-Conway, a wonderful Santa Cruz, CA artist and fellow ocean-lover.
Proceeds from this book will benefit youth ocean education projects.
Bay of Angels: Ocean Magazine
Thursday, October 12, 2006
And if now I share
How I spend my days
Will you feel
Not so far away?
Early dew drenched desert sand
Rises with the morning sun
And I shuffle through
To the water's edge
To the temple
Of dust and salt.
Amidst the clamoring choir
Of closing valves and doors
The far silhouettes
Of a
Punta Abreojos: Ocean Magazine
Friday, October 6, 2006
Punta Abreojos
They named the point
Open Your Eyes
Abre los Ojos
A rock and sand bulwark
Jetting into the Pacific
Protecting a lagoon, whales, osprey nests
But a sleeping watchman
Or unskilled helmsman
Would know wreckage on her stony shore
And now her proud light cuts
Across dark sea
