The blues are migrating through the Azores and I am here clinging to a little boat bobbing in the Atlantic […]
My Writing
From Bananas to The Bomb: The Strength of Diversity
My friend has two dogs. One is a purebred pug with a cute pushed in nose and a […]
The scientific Method and Automobile Repair
About my Book: The Scientific Method and Automobile Repair takes you on a journey through time and space to meet some of the amazing people, from Archimedes to Darwin, who have contributed to how modern science has changed our daily lives and the way we look at the world. Although you will encounter some fascinating scientific facts in The scientific […]
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my Story
Mary Bahr was born in Orlando, Florida. She grew up on Orlando’s northeast side on and in a lake that was mostly wilderness with bald eagles roosting in trees outside the breakfast table window and panthers roaming the groves next door. Her father was an outdoors-man who taught her to fish, canoe, and sail Florida’s waters. Her mother was a […]
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From Bananas to The Bomb: The Strength of Diversity
My friend has two dogs. One is a purebred pug with a cute pushed in nose and a charming personality. The other is a sleek, and playful husky-lab cross. She loves to run fast and dig holes. The pug cannot keep up with his mutt friend because he has some serious health issues. He comes from a long […]
Read moreFinding Good YA Science Books
Finding for high quality Young Adult (YA) Nonfiction science books is hard! I did find though that YALSA-young Adult Library Services Association has some excellent book lists and a nonfiction award with extensive ( http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction-award ) book lists that contain some science books. and I am working from them to read more high quality YA nonfiction. Much of it is […]
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Whale Tales
The blues are migrating through the Azores and I am here clinging to a little boat bobbing in the Atlantic Swells listening to Portuguese chatter from Antares, our spotter, on shore under the volcano on Pico Island in the center of the Azores archipelago. I cannot understand Portuguese but his tone tells volumes as he begins yelling and the words […]
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The Importance of How We know What We know
“It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been […]
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what Captain Cook Missed in New Zealand
This gorgeous scenery was just missed by Captain Cook back in 1769. Right around the corner, through the Mountains in the center of the photo, is a winding passage into the Tasman sea located between New Zealand and Australia. Cook sailed around New Zealand back in 1769. He missed the entrance which is concealed to all but the closest approach […]
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