Reflections

There are some who believe that fire releases the sunlight that has been stored as energy in the body of the plant or tree. If this is...

Thirty-nine years ago I had an unforgettable dream about my grandfather, who I called Papa. From time to time, the dream would resurface...

A few months ago, I started getting rid of all my journals, about 40 in total. I’m less than halfway through the stack, but the momentum...

Returning to my childhood home stirs memories. I remembered how the particular landscape, more than any other place, has been a lifelong...

SPRING Sound the flute! Now it’s mute! Birds delight, Day and night, Nightingale, In the dale, Lark in sky,— Merrily, Merrily, merrily to...

My parents gave my older sister and me a Sheltie puppy when I was in 7th grade. We named him Simba after a handsome Argentinian Collie by...

On my latest road trip up the west coast from California to Washington, I kept noticing turkey vultures in the sky. I’d never given much...