

Owls and Asterisms
The following bit 'o sunshine (moonshine?) was graciously submitted for your reading pleasure by the fantabulous and soon-to-be-famous...


Rhymes With Siliceous Mudstone
Question: What rhymes with siliceous mudstone? Answer: Nothin' good. Alternative Answers: "Audacious home phone" "Lucious xylaphone"...


Pocket Rocks: Bristol
I work with some of the greatest humans ever conceived on this planet. We are the Boonies. That is the name I dubbed my two fleeting...


Pocket Rocks: An Anthology
Sometimes you find the rock, sometimes the rock finds you. This principle was imparted unto me by Kenji Sato, a Master of the martial...


Let's Get Ready to TUUUMBLE!
This is literally the third draft of a post about rock tumbling I have attempted to date. I swear to every single reader (I refer, of...


Stone Soup
Way, way back when I was just a wee tot, rambling around the decorative gravel at my grandparent's Illinois home, there was a dish best...


Impressions of a Conservation Standard
I authored many essays in college. Some were for anthropology, some for that one English writing course, but most were research papers....


Tuff Nuts to Crack: A Thunder Egg Story
Prepare yourself & hold on to your butt, because this is the epic tale of how we, Alex Jensen and I, went digging for balls of colored...


Pocket Rocks
That groups of people will always have a thing, is basically all I know about people and things. Pocket rocks are one of these valuable...


Wood You Rather?
Wood can turn into opal. Guys. I'm not just blowin' smoke up your skirts, here, this is real life. Opalized wood is a thing and I found...
















