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We have a dead tree in the middle of our backyard, a crabapple, which has zero leaves on it and drops dead branches daily, as if someone were trimming her hair. Everyday. Stray branches pile

This week brought the end of the school year, for myself as a teacher in

Latin name = Troglodyte aedon Translation? Troglodyte = cave dweller, aedon = Nightingale…Nightingale cave dweller.

I write, everyday, in my head. The writing is a constant conversation, lamenting on things

“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as

In winter, there is a time, specifically at sunrise, when the sun has not yet

This week marked the 8th month of the beginning of the quarantine here in Maryland.

Heat and humidity have been the daily recipe for weather here in Maryland. We are

I grew up in Iowa, where a few hundred years ago, tall grass prairie covered

Our little bubble, the one we have been living in for 14 weeks, the one