Environment
This Borrowed Land
The President of the United States, twenty state attorneys general, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency have declared climate change a hoax. Elin McCracken, wife of a Kansas rancher, disagrees fut feels powerless until the death of a… Continue reading
DOGWOODS
Our farm in the Ozarks had a thick, twenty-acre oak and cedar forest sprinkled with dogwood trees. Blooming in the spring, the dogwoods looked like slender, teenage girls with flowers in their hair. They dotted the woods with bright beacons… Continue reading
Tornados
It’s tornado season again, a scary time of year.
Once a long time ago, we heard the sirens go off. I rushed the children to the basement while their foolhardy father stood outside watching… Continue reading
FALL LEAVES
Fall
My second favorite time of the year. Looie and I go walking.
The sun shines bright and it is raining leaves.
We walk down our driveway on a thick, cushiony pad of golden river birch leaves.
Someone at… Continue reading
GARDEN TRASH OR TREASURES
It has been said that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.(Is that a pithicism?) This spring we have a lot of what others call trashy plants in our yard, but I prefer to think of them as treasures.
The… Continue reading
