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Conservation

National Reptile Awareness Day Should Be Appreciation Day!

October 21 is National Reptile Awareness Day. I would prefer the term ‘Appreciation’ instead of ‘Awareness.’ Many people are aware of reptiles but don’t appreciate them.

Living with Reptiles

Ever Set a Pumpkin on Fire? In Your Kitchen?

My reptiles like hard squash, so I cook pumpkin, butternut and acorn squash until they are soft and squishy. The easiest way to cook them

Adventure!

Let ME Tell You How to Find a Lizard! by Curtis Curly-tail Lizard

Hello, my friends! It’s been a while! I’m just getting back home after the hurricane on Beach Cay. Phew! THAT was an adventure! If you’d

photo of the head of a Sonoran Desert toad

Science Education

Umm . . . Ever Wanted to Lick a Toad’s Back?

Toad image courtesy of ockienot88 from Pixabay Are you familiar with the word entheogen? I wasn’t either until I heard it mentioned in a talk

Iguanas

Sweet Iguana Dreams, My Friends

Every night I say “Sweet Iguana Dreams” to my iguana family members. Some people would think that is a silly thing to say, since iguanas

Tales From Elaine

Opinion: Negative Words Used for Effect Can Convey the Wrong Message

Arg! Infested? Really?! One of my pet peeves, or maybe, as a person who loves her reptiles, I should say companion-animal peeves, is when animals

Button and Me

One Thousand Pounds of the Unexpected!

One year ago today my life changed significantly. Growing up, and as an adult, I’ve had only reptiles as companion animals. I never wanted a

Tales From Elaine

The Sea Wrote to Me!

As part of my writing business, I travel to numerous places, not only for inspiration but also for the marketing of my books. Most of

photo of spiny-tail lizard climbing wall of cage

Iguanas

It’s a Climbing-the-Walls Kind of Time

Here, my youngest iguana, Twizzler Spiny-tail Iguana, is demonstrating that he is literally climbing the wall. by Elaine A. Powers If you’re like me, you’re

Event

Thrilled to Announce a Book Signing!

photo of a saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert

Tales From Elaine

Desert vs. Island Temps by Curtis Curly-tail Lizard

Since I’ve been staying in my den more, I’ve been tuning in to old TV shows. I enjoy the old Westerns set in the US

an illustration of Curtis curly-tail lizard advertising his You Tube page

Curtis Tails

Did You Know There is More Than One “English?” by Curtis Curly-tail Lizard

Hi, friends! It’s me—Curtis Curly-tail! Did you miss me? (Come on over and see me at my YouTube page.) I missed you, too! Did you

graphic illustration of the zodiac constellation Cancer

Science Education

Moon and Venus say Hello to Each Other!

PHOTO above is courtesy of the App called SkyView. Thanks to Tucson, Arizona being a dark sky city, stargazing can be wonderful. One recent September

photo of Horned Lizard in Sonoran Desert

Curtis Tails

It’s Not a Horny Toad! By Curtis Curly-tail Lizard

Did you know that people sometimes call lizards toads? Toads—which are amphibians, by the way, not reptiles like us lizards. Even this lizard’s scientific name

image of Susan Mule reading from Silent Rocks

Conservation

I wrote Silent Rocks, but Susan Mule Gives a Dramatic Reading!

Above Susan Mule of the Cayman Islands reads Silent Rocks. Of particular importance to me are the two endemic iguana species on the islands

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National Reptile Awareness Day Should Be Appreciation Day!

Ever Set a Pumpkin on Fire? In Your Kitchen?

Let ME Tell You How to Find a Lizard! by Curtis Curly-tail Lizard

Umm . . . Ever Wanted to Lick a Toad’s Back?

Sweet Iguana Dreams, My Friends

Opinion: Negative Words Used for Effect Can Convey the Wrong Message

One Thousand Pounds of the Unexpected!

The Sea Wrote to Me!

It’s a Climbing-the-Walls Kind of Time

Thrilled to Announce a Book Signing!

Desert vs. Island Temps by Curtis Curly-tail Lizard

Did You Know There is More Than One “English?” by Curtis Curly-tail Lizard

Moon and Venus say Hello to Each Other!

It’s Not a Horny Toad! By Curtis Curly-tail Lizard

I wrote Silent Rocks, but Susan Mule Gives a Dramatic Reading!

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