My lover picked me roses
From her garden last Sunday morn,
Red blossoms in seductive poses
Nestled coyly amongst the thorns.
She vased them in a crimson arrangement
Displayed by the window in the sun.
Then I watched in naive estrangement
As my illusions came undone.
As those roses, I’d sung of love, heart crazed.
But I sang alone, remember?
What had been a raging [...]

They called it a near miss, but I called it terrifying. I had just nearly killed my Uncle Harry!
After fifty years, I still clearly remember the incident. It occurred when I was about twelve years old and had just begun to be allowed to hunt with the men in my family. We lived on a [...]

We grew up in the 1940’s and ‘50’s on a small dairy and chicken farm in Belfast, Maine. ‘We’ being my two brothers and three cousins. Times there were hard. Farming in those days, as I suspect it is now, was an austere life. Lots of hard work with little compensation. I think the people [...]

Gardeners around the country are increasingly aware of ‘Go Green’ as more than a slogan. As more and more homeowners are devoted to beautifying their yards, they seek ways to maximize their efforts. Most importantly, the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is becoming less attractive to those who garden. They search for alternative ways [...]

Oak trees in the back country of eastern San Diego County are under attack by a beetle presumed to be relatively new to California and not previously connected to the deaths of these types of trees in this area. Only very recently has the connection to the dying trees and the rare shiny green oak [...]

While sitting in my dentist’s office last week, I happened to pick up a copy of the October 2007 edition of National Geographic Adventure, ‘The Green Edition’. While casually leafing through it I came across an interesting half page article (page 68) concerning plastic islands in the middle of our oceans - floating garbage patches [...]