Australian Birds: Rainbow Bee-eater

The strikingly beautiful rainbow bee-eater performs aerial acrobatics while hunting insects and removes wasp and bee stingers before eating. It’s my pick for Australia’s most beautiful bir...

South African Birds: African Paradise-flycatcher

One of Africa’s most beautiful birds, the agile African paradise-flycatcher inhabits forests and woodlands in much of sub-Saharan Africa.   In keeping with the South African theme of my las...

Beginning a New Book – Rock and Thorn: Six Months in South Africa

To immediately immerse readers in my South African memoir-in-progress, Rock and Thorn: Six Months in South Africa, I’ll write it as an evocative journal filled with sights, sounds, action and re...

South African Memoir on the Horizon

Have events ever come together to give you new direction? Learn how three unrelated events coalesced to point me toward my next book project, a South African memoir.   It’s fascinating how we g...