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
Tag: Essays
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
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,
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