It’s deep in winter and my hands are soft and smooth. My cuticles? Them too. No dry, cracked skin. No flaking itchy skin. No hard, dry cuticles that creep up each year as…
I wondered, a couple weeks back, how “the birds” emptied my bird feeder in one fell swoop. In less than 24 hours. Went from full to not full.
I was pretty sure it wasn’t…
What mysteries of life unfold in my kitchen on this fall winter night.
I decided to go get my mail. It’s 2:43 a.m. Whatever. So I get my mail, see a package and…
Oh, oh, oh. There was a time, there was a moment, when my life focus was local-local-local. I created a local blog hub with hundreds of local bloggers listed; held monthly parties for…
When gathering a large group of folk dressed in Santa-inspired attire, leading them on a suburban walkabout for many hours and trying to coordinate arrivals and meetups for a multi-hour, multi-location event, one…
I saw two owls in two days: one Friday night and one Saturday evening! And I saw them in completely different locations.
I occasionally hear owls (especially the bard owls), but this past weekend,…
This past mid-October, I’ve had a daily afternoon visitor: this rib-cage showing, adult female deer who — and I’ve witnessed it — is still nursing two larger fawn.
There’s an oak tree in my…