Dan Zak recently profiled my acting career as well as the wildlife and arts causes that are near and dear to me in a beautifully written profile in The Washington Post.

On September 11, 2021, Jane Alexander accepted the Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy’s Lifetime Conservation Achievement Award. This is her reflection upon the occasion.

Murder and mayhem in the middle of the day. I was doing some gardening in my kitchen box when this very loud caterwauling echoed from the woods across the pond.

What looked like a small bird or a Hawk Moth crossed our path as we headed down the driveway to the beach. Through my binoculars I could see they were two Monarch butterflies….

We have a lot of hares roaming around in the underbrush and woods. Now in winter they have turned a muted white to blend in with the snow, and the fur on their back feet splays out under and beyond their long leg bones….

Potato Island is heating up again. The courtship displays of the Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls are getting noisier, as the couples reclaim their spots from past years.

The Great Blue Heron has been stymied this summer. The pond is high as the sluice culvert is blocked with sand from the rising tides of the ocean, and he cannot find shallow enough water to stand in for his eel fishing.