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Not fretting about someone armed with a shotgun taking direct aim at free speech; not pondering the imminent demise of democracy—no, just admiring a big bird of prey on the electric wires overhead, and not any old raptor, but...

The distinctive knocking gave away the woodpecker, but it took several minutes to locate its position high up in the tree. The pileated kind, from the Latin pileatus meaning wearing a cap, in this case red like a cardinal’s in...

—for my granddaughter, Kennedy It has since become known as “The Miracle on Ice,” the U.S. hockey team at Lake Placid in the 1980 Winter Olympics beating the Soviet Union, four-time defending gold medal champions, 4-3 in a...

now that the words are spoken the prayers prayed the hugs exchanged now that the cookies are eaten the tears dried the stories shared now that the chairs are folded the cars are loaded and we’ve gone home it is slowly seeping in...

my cat keeps a close eye on me since you’re gone she notices things like tears and a broken heart they say dogs show empathy and cats are aloof which may be true in general but mine is the sweetest empath I’ve known purring now...

the words of children spoken at memorials always get me so earnest and raw such fresh innocent grief

driving home from your Celebration of Life today I thought of so many things I could have said like the time on our first date when you pulled out the trilogy of White Dragon Books that we had talked about before we met and you...

and what, defines us. A universe to quantify, two cups to a pint, two pints a quart, four quarts a gallon. Fetal age is weeks, lifespan decades, while kids race months to years. Track’s run in fifty-meter increments, till...

A month early, Noah arrived 5lbs. 6 oz. but testing out of the NICU. He is a tiny man, and like all men, rages when his stomach pains, skin transmuting from ivory translucence to hot magenta in seconds − so small the circulating...

This year the cherry blossoms in Athens, Georgia, burst like white novas, every branch popcorned — bark, a secret. Thirty-eight days of hard frost lit the fuse of these floral firecrackers. While somewhere in Patagonia a guanaco...

If I found you,          never knowing          what you were, I wouldn’t know how much          you were nothing          without a lock and wouldn’t know          that before you          everything          was open.  ...

Boats bob like ducks above the dam for hours,           waiting. Flashy red speed boats with bikini-clad babes rock between john boats with trolling motors and wells full of walleye, and houseboat renters sipping cocktails,    ...