Author: Sarah Baker

  • Life on a Roll

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    The Venice of the North By Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com/ So many Venices in the World! Before booking my trip to Russia, I had no clue that Peter the Great wanted the city he founded, Saint Petersburg, to look like Venice, Italy. During the never-ending summer days, discover this colorful city with dozens of palaces along…

  • July/August 2018 Cover

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  • Grappling with Mental Health

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    Sarah Baker Photo Courtesy of Lavoz Magazine The past few weeks have highlighted the mental health crisis that our society is facing. Two high-profile and esteemed celebrities, fashion designer Kate Spade and Chef Anthony Bourdain, were found dead just days apart.  These perplexing suicides remind us that success does not make one immune to unhappiness.…

  • Rockets’ Red Glare

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    Aileen Marshall   Are you looking forward to the Fourth of July holiday? It’s great to get a day off from work, and, of course, it is a celebration of the country’s independence. Yet another thing to get excited about is the traditional fireworks displays. Fireworks have been a part of the Independence Day tradition…

  • Bye Dakota!

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      This month, the Natural Selections Editorial Board bids farewell to Dakota Blackman. We would like to thank her for her dedication and for helping Natural Selections to become what it is today. Dakota joined Natural Selections in May of last year as a contributor and editor. She served as the Editorial Assistant and contributed a regular column titled Word…

  • Book Review – Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything

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    Emma Garst Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything Helen Scales Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018 320 pages Hardback, $27.00 Consider the Barreleye, a deep-sea fish named for its two long, cylindrical eyes pointed directly upwards towards the water’s surface. These googly eyes are covered by a clear, membranous dome, giving…

  • Culture Corner – The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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      Bernie Langs The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Julian Jaynes Houghton Mifflin, 1990; originally published in 1976 491 pages Paperback, $15.00     Two cylinder seals with modern impressions; top: Weather god on a lion dragon, Northern Mesopotamia, Mitannian period, mid-2nd millennium B.C.; bottom: Worshiper and a god with…

  • Quotable Quote

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      “She is quick and curious and playful and strong. She is a voracious reader and a fantastic dancer. She saves old snapshots but always loses her umbrella. Her emails pile up, but she never forgets to call her grandmother. She has $7 in change at the bottom of her handbag.” -Kate Spade on the…

  • Life on a Roll

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    Qiong Wang – Morocco Series #2 – Fes Fes, one of the four royal cities in Morocco, is famous for its rich culture and history. The old medina is like the sacred labyrinth of the moors. Hundreds of uneven narrow lanes turn and terminate capriciously, and thousands of short old houses have managed to squeeze…

  • June 2018 Cover

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