ON THE VERGE

we are watching them. They just come for the food. It's funny, though, how some of them seem to pose for the camera. A pause in their ea...

I think it's the bubbles blasting out of leaf-blower-style bubble machines or the feathery frothy angel wings some people are wearing. T...

Down in the youth department at the library it is joy-chaos.  Our summer reading program has kicked off, and everyone and their mother is he...

Squirrels dug up and tossed one of the purple basil plants. And slugs ate the kale. A deer lost from the herd wanders up and down the sidewa...

and his little horns are just beginning to poke out. When he tries to jump on my shoulders, he slides off. Note to self: next time you sign ...

and for a moment, I am in awe, an entire world in my herb garden, and I am just a visitor, clearing out the weeds, untangling the thyme, whi...

is what it says on the little boy's t-shirt. He's a regular patron at our library who comes in once a week with his grandfather, and...