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My Gramma planted flowers and colorful bushes along the front and sides of her house in rural North Dakota. She’d monitor their blooms carefully and eagerly. When the blooms finally…

Friends of mine in Louisville – my hometown – recently bought a house that, 50 years ago, had been rented as duplex apartments. Serendipitously, my uncle was a tenant on…

Every now and again, I’ll be walking along, and some random object will strike me. On this particular day in Oxford, the object was this door. It’s just really, really…

Due to my many years of living in New York City, I tend to think of a bench as a temporary resting place that may or may not be sanitary.…

Say hello to my friends the degus. They’re cozy in their bed and still paying attention to the strange thing approaching (aka, me). We live in a world that praises…

When I was a kid, I had a cat named Trouble. Here he is, chilling in the bathroom sink. Trouble earned his name from day one, and yet I look…

I took these photos six minutes apart, before and after a wild rainfall. (Believe it or not, that first one is a color photo, not black & white!) Mother Nature…

You know how a dog will cock his head to the side? I don’t know if this is true or not, but, when that happens, I see curiosity. Same with…