Blog Hazardous Conditions & the Heidelberg My children's favorite portion of these beachfront signs is the large bottom section, titled “HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS.” Day by day, lifeguards…Jared AyersSeptember 1, 2021
Blog At Summer’s End In the United States we mark summer’s parameters with a pair of Monday holidays: Memorial Day begins the summer season…Scott HoezeeAugust 31, 2021
Blog No One Sees Clean Windows When it comes to housework, no one notices it unless you don’t do it. In 1976, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich published…Rebecca KoerselmanAugust 30, 2021
Blog Running the Rockies We were tired, sore, crabby, and all of us had doubts about whether or not we would survive the next…Chad PierceAugust 29, 2021
Blog The Green Knight and Narrative Refusal Director David Lowery, who also produced and wrote the film, has stripped out almost all of the subtle satirical commentary…Debra RienstraAugust 28, 2021
Blog For the first day of school. . . A few scrappy, three-foot cuttings, no bigger than buggy whips, are coming up from the front yards of a half-dozen…James C. SchaapAugust 27, 2021
Blog Ferns on the Ceiling The living earthy smell of perpetually wet sandstones. A smell from an ancient ocean. The gurgle and pop of small…Tim Van DeelenAugust 26, 2021
Blog The Peaches of Paradise I just don’t buy the apple. Not because apples need cooler winters than those of the Middle East. We don’t have…David HoekemaAugust 25, 2021
Blog Ten Random Things Ten bits and pieces to sample. I hope at least one will make you smile or cry, wince or wonder.Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellAugust 24, 2021
Blog The Cost of Freedom Freedom has become a buzzword of a particular identity. I don’t know what to call this identity. It gets expressed…Jeff MunroeAugust 23, 2021