On ignoring the news for a minute
A couple of days ago, I was the fortunate recipient of a songbird's wakeup call. Our family calendar and the texting app on my phone had my [...]
Thank goodness for bookstores
Look what I stumbled upon today at Literati Bookstore in downtown Ann Arbor, a little reminder of what fear can cause and why we need to be [...]
Garden as Artist’s Studio, Workshop as Garden
Much as I embrace No Attachment (and I have posted little signs above my desk that remind me of that), I feel that writing poems, indeed making [...]
Color, Beauty, and the Birds and the Bees
A male northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) just lighted upon the spruce in the neighbor's wild patch outside our kitchen window. The bird is much brighter now than in February, [...]
Ross Gay in Ann Arbor Today (and Yesterday)
Yesterday evening I had to choose between going to hear M. Scott Momaday or Ross Gay and friends read their work. Oh the riches. I decided to [...]
Eco Book Club at Literati Bookstore
I have so much to tell you. For one thing, just the other day I tasted my first pawpaw, straight from the wild grove that's thriving in [...]