Reis Valley and Mudville
A blog about California, sustainability, restoration, history, and more
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Graphic Novel Reviews
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Our family has been reading a lot of graphic novels over the last year or two. They are mostly fun, some are absolutely brilliant, and some ...
Saturday, March 6, 2021
Bright Light at Night is a Fright
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"Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!" --Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 Last month, my b...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Islands in the Sky
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Fog--often surrounding ridges and peaks like water surrounding an island--is shown in the following photos, which were taken on eight diffe...
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Toppling John Muir
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In my 20s, I remember reading an article that lamented the loss of heroes for youth to emulate. It made me ask myself who my hero was. The...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Learning about equity from Monopoly
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In recent months, when I played Monopoly with my kids, I realized how insidious the rule is that you don't have to pay someone who doesn...
Friday, June 5, 2020
Black Lives Matter
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Black Lives Matter. While this statement is true, I dislike it for the same reasons I dislike the term "environmentalist." Of cou...
Monday, May 18, 2020
I went to the beach
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Has anyone else been reading headlines and news articles as if they were from The Onion during regular times? The video of the guy cleaning ...
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