What is a weed? A sassy gardener will tell you it is any plant growing in the wrong place at the wrong time. What makes the time and place wrong
Author: Patty A. Gray
Patty A. Gray is an emerging writer of fiction and memoir. She is published in 86 Logic and The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and her chapbook is a semi-finalist for the 2023 Newfound Prose Prize. In her previous incarnation as an anthropologist, she lived and worked in Germany, Alaska, Ireland, and Russia. She currently lives in Northern California with her librarian husband, two cats, and an edible garden, earning her living as a freelance copyeditor.
Our frog came back last night. As we sat down to dinner, we suddenly heard his familiar song, that classic “ribbet . . . ribbet–ribbet–ribbet–ribbet . . .” I threw
My vegetable garden was a failure this year. I just didn’t have the oomph to manage it in a way that would make it impressively productive. It was probably because
The rains have come this year, and I welcome the quiet melancholy they bring. Because if I am not sad in December, it means the sun is shining too brightly,
I have the good fortune to have earned the friendship of a geologist. We met a few years ago when we were assigned to co-teach an environmental studies course at
Let this stand as my mission statement: “The essayist, unlike the novelist, the poet, and the playwright, must be content in his self-imposed role of second-class citizen. A writer