Songs of Innocence and of Experience

When I was in college, I opted to pursue an Honors degree in English.  Part of the requirement for this was to write a sort of mini-thesis that incorporated some concept that one could trace through several different works and then defend before two professors and a peer. In the Liberal Arts Seminar that consumed [...]

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Song of Spring

Despite the warm weather, it’s gloomy and un-Springlike out my window this morning.  Rain is forecast for later and I just hope it holds off until after my kindergartner’s much-anticipated field trip to Ijams Nature Center is complete. I’m a big fan of four definite seasons, and I love something about all of them, but [...]

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Resilience

The yellow house had to go.  It really did.  It was dangerous.  But the wisteria draping it was so beautiful and I was afraid that it would all be gone this year.  I started seeing it bloom in other places but not in my yard.  And I wondered if I would enjoy that wonderful aroma [...]

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