Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen

"...watching the sun melt like sorbet into the Gulf of Mexico."
from "Nature Girl" by Carl Hiaasen

Preserving Nature, One Wacky Character at a Time

"The chopper banked and then hovered near the dolphins which began vaulting and doing flips.  The mullets sprang like silver fireworks."

"Their table overlooked the river where jumping fish flashed like squirts of mercury under the dock lights."

from "Nature Girl"  by Carl Hiaasen

I love Carl Hiaasen's work for his cry to save Florida.  But also for his wacky characters and wonderful prose.

"I'm too lazy to retire"

by
Sid Fleischman, author of "The Whipping Boy" 1987 Newberry Award Winner

"She thought of new marriages as being rather like those shy, delicate flowers one sees on the edge of the Kalahari; so small that one might miss them altogether, so vulnerable that a careless step might crush their beauty."
"The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection" by Alexander McCall Smith

Back the Principle? or the Leader?

"There is another way to think about this:  The United States can and should stand for the rule of law, stable institutions and democracy...I mean...in the principle that power should change hands peacefully, inclusively, and according to a set of rules accepted by all social groups....The alternative is that power changes hands violently, that some groups are left out of the political process and that social discontent remains very high."

America's True Ally in Egypt: The United States
Should Stand Up For Democracy, Not the Players on the Ground
Anne Applebaum, Slate.com  Aug 23, 2013

More Imagery

".....fat raindrops were already pocking the water with perfectly formed little craters."
from "The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag" by Alan Bradley

Best Equation of the Day

"Cooking with and for children can feel like a problem that physics has yet to solve:  there are too many variables, and each is in itself too variable."

From How to Cook Dinner When a Small Child is Dangling From Your Limbs" 
August 2, 2013
Dinner vs Child is a bi-weekly column about cooking for children, with children, and despite children
by Nicholas Day