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July 2, 2024
The Gift of Community
Walking toward our favorite Chinese restaurant in Ithaca, NY in the late 1960s, we noticed…
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June 18, 2024
Saving Baby Blues
Three days ago, there were four. They had new feathers and hungry mouths Now there…
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June 4, 2024
There’s Joy Here
I read the news, so I know. Children are starving in Gaza and Ukraine. In…
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May 7, 2024
Reaching for a Helping Hand
“No more heroics,” my son Anthony says. His brother David would say the same. “No.…
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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…
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April 10, 2024
First Spring Butterfly
On a rare sunny April afternoon, I sit on a round stone near Vic’s cairn…
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March 26, 2024
Preparing for a Solar Eclipse
It will probably be cloudy here, because it’s March in the NY Finger Lakes. Still,…
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March 12, 2024
After the Storm
“I lost big trees in the recent wind,” I tell the Finger Lakes Land Trust…
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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…