Second Thoughts: Perspectives on Us and the Natural World

by R. Peter Mogielnicki

Overview

The majority combine the author’s life-long interest and experiences in the natural world with his professional background in science and medicine. Along the way there are digressions into the works of other essayists like E.O.Wilson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Brian Doyle with occasional flashes of Swiftian satire. Typical chapter titles include: “What Good Are Grizzlies and Gryphons?” “What’s a Bee Worth?” “On Not Heating with Wood.” “A Surfeit of the Humanities”, “Anthropocentric Narcissism” and “Perfect Oysters:Imperfect Produce.”

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166040893
Publisher:	R. Peter Mogielnicki
Publication date:	03/25/2023
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	424 KB

About the Author

Robert Peter Mogielnicki, M.D. is a Dartmouth (now Geisel) Medical School Professor of Medicine emeritus who was drawn away from rural New Hampshire to Portland’s Beaumont Wilshire neighborhood by the pull of his children and grandchildren. As an English major at Cornell University in the 60’s, he vacillated between a career as a writer or physician and eventually chose the safer route. Most of his previous publications have been in the professional medical literature but since retirement he has changed to more creative genres.

In 2017 he was honored to have his submission, Dissection: A Novel, selected among entries in the Library’s Writer’s Project for inclusion in Multnomah Library’s ebook collection. Since then he has been working on a collection of essays published in 2023 as Second Thoughts: Reflections on Us and the Natural World. He and his life partner and sometimes editor, Nancy, are fortunate to have a summer home on the Rhode Island shore. That environment has inspired several of the essays in Second Thoughts.

When not writing, or doing home maintenance he spends his time building Legos with his grandchildren, gardening, fly fishing in both fresh and salt water and working on a variety of environmental causes.