Shello everybody! Please join me this week as I head to the Tampa Bay Area to celebrate the 1st Jane Goodall Day of Action this Friday at Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center in Tarpon Springs, Florida. I will also be getting the party started early on Thursday, April 2nd at Weedon Island Preserve in St. Petersburg☮️🐢💜 Both of these events are designed for children 10 - 13 years old, but all are welcome to join these free, family-friendly activities. RSV

Happy 4 years of adventure, Beneath the Surface! Help me "shellebrate" and introduce a new girl hero to more readers (ages 10 - 13) this year with the Beneath the Surface 2026 Book Tour -- coming to a nature preserve/library/book store/ tea house near you (hopefully!). Each free event will feature a short reading from Beneath the Surface and an activity from the "Deep Dive" ocean literacy pack. The activities are most suitable for people ages 10-13 but all are welcome. March

Recently I celebrated my 49th birthday. While this is mostly a time to reflect on the 4th dimension and all the changes you go through as...

The Blue Marble Series takes young readers on an ocean exploration adventure through a fictional lens based on real-world issues. Beneath the Surface is the first book of three in the Blue Marble Series, introducing 11 year old Xing Xing, who inherits a special power that allows her to travel miles below sea level, near the coast of Nan’ao Island, in southern China. After traveling many miles from home, Xing Xing is welcomed to Fertile Valley , a utopian marine refuge full o

China's "Pink Dolphins" (Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins) have declined 75% in just the past 20 years, according to the 2018 documentary...

SHELLO PARTY PEOPLE! There's sooooo much to shelebrate: March 27, 2024 is the 2nd anniversary of Beneath the Surface which also happens...

Brought to you in part by the Green Drinks community in China, I am delighted to share this Introduction to Eco-Mindfulness session I...

Please join me and the Green Drinks community in China for an Introduction to Eco-Mindfulness. Learn how this fundamental practice is...

Change is life, and life is change! Here, at the end of the year, it's hard not to reflect on what has just happened and passed, or is...

Are you an art or activity teacher interested in creative lessons that help raise environmental awareness? If so, you might be interested...

Hope is the continuous theme of the Blue Marble Series, starting with the first story, Beneath the Surface. The series is designed as a...

Calling all intrepid explorers, superheroes in training, both above and below sea level: Learn more about threats to ocean life and what you can do to help in the Beneath the Surface activity pack, featuring the Ocean Lovers' Chinese mini-lessons . Learn about sea animals and culture in China, while learning a bit of Chinese reading, writing and speaking. Learning another language always makes the world a smaller, more understanding and peaceful place. These video mini-less

AI will never be as creative as earthlings until everyone's a programmer, and even then, human intelligence falls short of all the...

You know the expression, "a journey of 1,000 meters begins with a single step"? 千里之行，始于足下 in Chinese, this proverb expresses how...

In honor of my book launch anniversary (March 27, 2002), and in celebration of National Reading Month, I've just made all the chapters of...

The ocean covers 70 percent of Earth's surface. It contains about 1.35 billion cubic kilometers (324 million cubic miles) of water, which...

Please enjoy these samples of the "31 Reasons for Hope" cards in the brand new Beneath the Surface activity pack, designed to take...

Happy 2023! This new year marks an exciting chapter for me as an emerging ecomythologist. I am so eager to help draw the connections...

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for following Xing Xing’s journey and those pink dolphins in the South China Sea! Your support...

Receiving my Open Water SCUBA Diving Certification in Nha Trang, April 2006 Looking back, I now realize that I have always been writing...