Archive - The Mercenary Pen

Some of what I've been working on

Feb 28 •

Giving your honey bees a home

Installing fresh bees into your hives

Feb 22 •

January 2025

The occupational hazard of beekeeping

Jan 30 •

How you can get started with buying some bees

Jan 3 •

December 2024

Honey Bee History

With some PA flavor

Dec 6, 2024 •

November 2024

Bee Space - An introduction

The first of a series of posts, copied from my recently-concluded newspaper column

Nov 21, 2024 •

Architectural Horror

A breakdown of one of my favorite subgenres

Nov 15, 2024 •

October 2024

April 2024

A Portrait of a Good Rooster

Or, life with a violent sexual predator in your backyard

Apr 19, 2024 •

March 2024

Retiring the Unprecedented

My least favorite word of 2020, 2021, 2022...

Mar 22, 2024 •

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