Zucchini. Zoo-keen-knee. What a disconnect between its name, free-spirited and lyrical, and the vegetable, ubiquitous and obese, tasteless and dull. (I cringe at the uppityness
“I’m stranded here,” my mother said when I called her one evening last week. An eye infection in her good eye has left mom totally
“I think he’s alive and living in the bush in Alaska like hundreds of other guys,” said Dale, the volunteer at the Port Clements Museum
“Why did you love Norway so much?” friends ask. I’ve been wondering myself, searching for a simple answer, for the finest example of Norway’s transcendence.
Mariposa: poetry in a single word. Better than butterfly? A paradise for butterflies, Costa Rica has 1,200 individual species, ten percent of the world’s mariposa
Yesterday, April 30, concluded National Poetry Month in Canada. In our courtyard a large magnolia is abloom (late this year) with voluptuous flowers. The perfect
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