To sit in a room filled with monarch experts and enthusiasts while Dr. Robert Pyle reads a passage from Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday was something I won’t forget for a long…
“We’ve all got our own little clovers with worlds on them!” …
My time chasing the Monarch Ultra team sped by but left me changed. Or, rather, changing. In the hour-long stretches of waiting for runners I observed how the team of…
The daily flight range for a migrating monarch is twenty-five to thirty miles, according to Monarch Joint Venture. I cite that source because last week I watched, fender-bender-gawker-style, as several…
It turns out that this is a story of community. I thought it was going to be about butterflies, and wonder, and people who have passion for both. And it…
She hung the moon and watched over the sleeping butterflies, whilst carrying hundreds of babies. Before the kids grumbled out of bed this morning, before the alarms and pet noises,…
Come cheer for monarchs in Fort Wayne! The Monarch Ultra is heading to Fort Wayne Thursday, just as the monarch butterflies will be passing through on their way south. Local…
Each time I open the Monarch Ultra website the first thing to pop up is the countdown clock. There’s nothing like a visual of time ticking down to jump start…
It was one of those late summer days, glossy with sun and blue sky, when my friend Kerri and I drove over to Springfield, Ohio for their Monarch and Bluegrass…
Chasing butterflies and their people is ridiculously fun. I’ve already met some extremely interesting folks, whose stories you can read in this blog. There are Spanish teachers, ultra-marathon runners, an…