Invitation Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field...... Read More

Riding the roller coaster of network news is exhausting.  Since November of 2016, many of my evenings consisted of fixing dinner then watching MSNBC. Chris, Chris, Rachel, Lawrence and, when...... Read More

My mother, Pauline Baker, is 91 years old, has been a widow for almost two years, and lives alone on the family farm in Southeastern Indiana. My blog entry today,...... Read More

I recently did a big splurge and subscribed to The New Yorker. It’s the gift that keeps on giving in ways that I hadn’t imagined. As I sat in my...... Read More

  Old Orion got tired of his reputation For hunting innocent animals All for food So he became a vegetarian And turned his bow into a plant pot Where he...... Read More

True story On Thursday late afternoon our son who attends college in Vincennes, Indiana, texted to tell me he was out of one of the three drugs he uses to...... Read More

Some of us live, deep inside, for NaPoWriMo, or, now, Na/GloPoWriMo, formerly know as National Poetry Writing Month, now National/Global Poetry Writing Month We at WWf(a)C have a “secret” Facebook...... Read More

Recently, I attended a local conservation club meeting at our public library.  The topic was old growth forest.  I ‘ve been curious about our native forests ever since reading John...... Read More

We walk on water like land. It could be a field except we slide across the surface and see below it the frozen form of algae the perfect white circle...... Read More

Stories we tell, layers of history, beliefs, built by stories handed down from one to another. Pebbles in the path, precisely placed, inform the direction the path will take, causing some to turn,...... Read More