It is a national challenge. In many places, there are simply too many people competing for too few affordable places to live, and nowhere worse than on the South Fork.

The osprey is a kind of modern-day phoenix, risen from the ashes of near-extermination.

Zaire had attracted me for what I perceived as its perch on the knife edge between order and chaos. I had sought a challenge.

All the way to Florida and back it was my daughter, Nettie, who led me in the right direction, not the other way around.