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  • An Ordinary Day in the life of this writer

    March 26, 2009

    • Today was a day like many others, with only a minor difference: I’m fighting off the tail end of a cold season bug, which turned out to be a rather muscular dragon's tail knocking me back down every time I got up. A gentle rain fell as I woke up. It served as a musical backdrop to the crying of gulls, the singing of the resident male robin, and the trilling of song sparrows. Despite a light ...
  • Spring Is Blossoming Out All Over

    March 25, 2009

    • Last Friday night, the first day of Spring, Gerald and I experienced the awakening as we drove down to Union County amid the white blossoming pear trees, tulip trees already shedding their pink blossoms, yellow forsythia, and golden daffodils in yards and roadsides. We went early to have time before we met his brothers and wives, so he could take me up to Hamburg Hill again in Shawnee National ...