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Susan McCarthy is co-author with Marjorie Ingall of Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies. Ingall & McCarthy write Sorrywatch.com, a website which analyzes apologies. McCarthy also writes about wildlife and animal behavior. She’s co-author of the international bestseller When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, and author of Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild. Not literally raised by wolves, McCarthy lives in San Francisco.

Category: Plants

  • Really? I’m not from around here, either

    San Francisco's wild parrots, subjects of a very nice book and movie, are famously “of Telegraph Hill.” But sometimes a few appear over my obscure Ingleside neighborhood where they land in the trees, shrieking. I have seen a flock of eight, and family groups of four. They are cherry-headed conures (Aratinga erythrogenys), native to Ecuador…

  • Were there but world enough, and time

    At Point Lobos, wild irises are blooming now. That's about sea level. My migratory habits are such that I'm more used to seeing wild irises flowering at the end of summer, in late July or August, in the Sierra near Tioga Pass. That's about 10,000 feet. (The irises at Point Lobos are Iris douglasiana, the…