This blogger’s inaugural post demonstrates much of what I like about her. She usually approaches her subject from a couple different angles to create little composite snapshots.

For example, in this first blog I felt a connection as a backcountry hiker. I’ve witnessed in others the projectile and explosive results of Giardia and they aren’t pretty. Still, I can appreciate the humor in that reference and she usually makes me chuckle.

Then she makes me think about how people elsewhere in the world get their water before teaching me several fascinating things in a very short space. The last fact of the dual nuclei in Giardia left me no choice but to go back and follow the link to learn more.

There are other longer posts on The Artful Amoeba that might be more worthy of submission, but I think this first one is representative of what I generally like.

In a culture that is infatuated with charismatic macrofauna, it is refreshing to find someone who is a little infatuated with charismatic microfauna and willing to extol their virtues so eloquently.