Weekly photo challenge: Boundaries
Overlooking a valley where dinosaurs once lived in western Saskatchewan In the summer of 2004 I spent six weeks in the upper Midwest and Canada studying the literature and history of the Great Plains...
View ArticleWeek 12: Ticket to Ride
The song I remember from spin this morning: “Eight Days a Week” by the Beatles. Forgot my water, so that freaked me out and took my mind off the music. Went to grab it after wiping the sweat away, and...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Old
These bison may only be a few years old. But when surrounded by a herd, you feel as if they know what human beings did to their kind just a few generations ago. It’s as if the knowledge of the blood...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Tiny
Another difficult photo topic this week. So I thought of tiny from a different perspective. Last year when I visited Chicago with a group of friends, we took photos at the top of the Hancock Tower....
View ArticlePhoto challenge: Morning
Morning mist lifting on the White Mountains in Vermont. I have not had much experience with mountains, so the few times that I have watched the morning mist rise — in western Massachusetts, New...
View ArticleWeekly photo challenge: Sky
Looking down on a valley scooped out by big sky near Eastend, Saskatchewan. This photo was taken near Eastend, a tiny town in Saskatchewan, where (on first glance) you might think absolutely nothing...
View ArticleWeekly photo challenge: Hidden
A beautiful and surprising little corner in the Seattle Art Museum What a Ghost Feels Once they were dark whispers that lived under beds and in closets, so real she could feel sandpaper fingers touch...
View ArticleShe Left Because
Huck had headed out to the territory one too many times. She left because she told students to discover their passions. She left because of rubrics. She left because Hester Prynne wouldn’t and...
View ArticleWeekly photo challenge: Lunchtime
My mom with Nancy and me at a picnic at my grandma’s. I was too young to remember this day, but here are some sensory images of being three years old at my grandmother’s house in the country: The...
View ArticleWeekly photo challenge: Escape!
This is the early morning view from the home of my friend, Paula Krauss, which is on a small cove on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. She and her family have been spending their summers here for...
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