For many years I spent Thanksgiving solo. After I graduated from high school, I left home, went to college, and then moved 3,000 miles away from my family. I spent many-a-Thanksgiving as an “orphan,” wandering from household to household. Here are a few glimpses from some of my more memorable orphan Thanksgivings: “Kentucky-themed” Thanksgiving: Suffice […]
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Bird in a House
Bird in a House I want to sing my own song that’s all cried the bird and flew into a wall there must be some way he cried and his desperation echoed down the hall Just another bird in a house dying to get out just another bird in a house dying to get […]
Nesting
Far from the city’s dust and heat, I get but sounds and odors sweet. Who can wonder I love to stay, Week after week, here hidden away, In this sly nook that I love best– This little brown house like a ground-bird’s nest. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American poet and writer 1850-1919 Want to feather […]
The Gift of the Magi
As many of you know, I like birds. Big Papa and I have created a backyard habitat to entice them with feeders, birdhouses and an old birdbath. I spend a lot of time (or at least I used to pre-parenthood) taking pictures of birds. And, bird nerd that I am, I even named my daughter […]