July 2, 2024
The Gift of Community
Walking toward our favorite Chinese restaurant in Ithaca, NY in the late 1960s, we noticed…
June 18, 2024
Saving Baby Blues
Three days ago, there were four. They had new feathers and hungry mouths Now there…
June 4, 2024
There’s Joy Here
I read the news, so I know. Children are starving in Gaza and Ukraine. In…
May 7, 2024
Reaching for a Helping Hand
“No more heroics,” my son Anthony says. His brother David would say the same. “No.…
April 23, 2024
My Grandmother’s Diary Imagined From Stories She Told
November 6, 1893 (Chicago) I’m nine years old, and I’m scared. Papa died yesterday. Momma…
April 10, 2024
First Spring Butterfly
On a rare sunny April afternoon, I sit on a round stone near Vic’s cairn…
March 26, 2024
Preparing for a Solar Eclipse
It will probably be cloudy here, because it’s March in the NY Finger Lakes. Still,…
March 12, 2024
After the Storm
“I lost big trees in the recent wind,” I tell the Finger Lakes Land Trust…
February 27, 2024
A Shining Light Breaking Through the Storm
"But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel…