A quiet test at first light If you want to know whether a book belongs in young hands, try this: set it next to a small morning fire, open it to a page that carries real weather, and listen. Some stories grow louder when the room is empty. Others keep a modest voice and still …
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I’m a collector. Who can tell what will be important and what not? I don’t have to decide. A fossil-loaded rock, a branch with spiral grain, a snake’s abandoned skin, an old notebook that has become hard to read. I keep it all. In front of the house stands a tree born of seed collected …
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Who Should Read the Untimely Journey Trilogy? A Guide for Parents and Educators
Posted: May 12, 2026 by Stan Kitchen
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A quiet test at first light If you want to know whether a book belongs in young hands, try this: set it next to a small morning fire, open it to a page that carries real weather, and listen. Some stories grow louder when the room is empty. Others keep a modest voice and still …
Category: Blog Tags: agency, book clubs, bristlecone pine, grammar, Ice Age, integrity, journal keeping, Packrat midden, pluvial lakes, routines, science and faith, scientific method, tender mercy, treelines, weather
What If You Could Time Travel to the Ice Age? Lessons from An Untimely Journey
Posted: February 23, 2026 by Stan Kitchen
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I’m a collector. Who can tell what will be important and what not? I don’t have to decide. A fossil-loaded rock, a branch with spiral grain, a snake’s abandoned skin, an old notebook that has become hard to read. I keep it all. In front of the house stands a tree born of seed collected …
Category: Blog Tags: Amberrat, bristlecone pine, Great Basin, House Range, Ice Age, Lake Bonneville, mammoth, packrat, Radiocarbon dating, sabertooth cat, time travel, tree-ring, woodrat midden