Some of you may have noticed that politics hasn’t been a very welcome topic on this blog since early November. Like so many other...

Another year, another Mikemas. We spent the weekend celebrating my 36th birthday, which was Saturday. The festivities included brunch with family, drinks with friends,...

Sara and I awoke to a gray, drizzling Easter morning determined to cram as much sightseeing as possible in our final full day in...

Bainbridge Island is just a short ferry ride across the Puget Sound from downtown Seattle. Though the island, considered the gateway to the Olympic...

Feeling thoroughly refreshed well before sunrise, an unhappy but not unexpected result of the time difference between the East and West Coasts, we had...

Sara and I have both jointly and independently criss-crossed this majestic country of ours, but neither of us had ever explored Washington State. As...

The taxonomic practice of speciation must be more art than science. After all, there are at least six distinct and recognizable populations of Dark-eyed...

While the rest of the United States populace is getting jiggy with corned beef and green beer for St. Patrick’s Day, the Core Team...