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I Think Spring Will Be Early This Year…

15.02.2010

Come February I start itching for spring. Even with another snow due tonight and tomorrow, winter no longer matters to me. I’ve a sense that it’s coming to an end. I like that. Not because I dislike winter—I don’t. Because it means change is coming. Considering I’m someone who downright loathes change, this is odd, [...]

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Review: The Cuckoo’s Haiku

14.10.2009

When seasons change, I get a strong pull to write poems. And the poems I tend toward are haiku. I also get a strong pull to read haiku. Another favorite picture book of mine is Michael J. Rosen’s The Cuckoo’s Haiku and Other Birding Poems, published by Candlewick Press. The watercolor illustrations by Stan Fellows capture [...]

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As If I Needed More Proof

24.09.2009

I get it. It’s fall. I can feel the cool change in the breeze. The red, orange, and yellow in the trees are obvious now. Leaves are falling. Those inclined to make their own declaration with pumpkin and chrysanthemum displays are growing daily. But I prefer nature to speak for itself. Like I wait for [...]

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Weeds Are Good

04.08.2009

There’s a window by my computer, and for months I’ve watched some weeds grow taller than the Black-eyed Susans. I kept meaning to pull them out (the weeds, not the Susans), but since there aren’t forty hours in the day, I just never got there. This morning, out of the corner of my eye, I [...]

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