When I first moved out to the desert some years back, I discovered what would become my favorite bookstore tucked back on the side of Highway 111 in Palm Desert. The sign out front reads Desert Map ...

Wherever I wander, I have an eye out for new and different things that might make interesting writing and reading. A trip to the Iowa-Missouri-Illinois tri-state corner last weekend offered up some ...

Agatized Coral hunting is becoming one of my absolute favorite things to do... beautiful colors, geodes, bubbly botryoidal agate... what else could you ask for?! Finding a fossil/gem/mineral all in ...

Would you spend $10,000 on a rock that looks like Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster — or would you ask some friends to chip in? Geologists, cookie-lovers and many social media users are hungry for ...