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Solid breath sparkles Shod toes follow bare-paw tracks Not bears; chilly dogs!
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Picture yourself as a Victorian-era British spinster, religious and socially proper. Then put yourself alone on horseback in the undeveloped wilds of the Colorado Rocky Mountains…alone…in winter…at night. Surprisingly, that’s one of the more pleasurable aspects of Bird’s time in my home state, back before it was even a state. Last month I read a…
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Flakes flannel the trees Dark ciphers unseen before Make their sharp debut
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Pink virga sunrise Mountains rise up to greet it My soul awakens
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Not only is this an amazing biography about a 19th-century female scientist, but it is also beautiful book. Sara Plummer Lemmon had a fascination with plant life, among other interests. She was also an accomplished artist. Brown includes some of Sara’s watercolor botanical illustrations in full-color plates. Sara Plummer was thirty-three and single when she…
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Dear Friends, I’ve decided to expand the offerings on my author-site blog. For now that will simply be an occasional haiku posted on Fridays. Later I may add some essays on writing that don’t really mesh with my long-standing Myricopia blog site. Along a Dry Ditch Dead sweetclover stems Milkweed pods exposing seeds Winter dormancy
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This highly acclaimed book came out in 2012, so I’m a bit late to the party. One knows going in that this is a book about teens with cancer. Heartbreak is a given. Worth it. Green wrote the book as a tribute to a cancer patient he dealt with as a student chaplain. She died…
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This is my top pick for historical fiction I’ve read this year. Fernandez put many years of research into this story about the life of Jo van Gogh-Bonger, wife of Vincent’s brother, Theo van Gogh. If you’ve ever wondered how Vincent van Gogh’s art became world-renowned, you will find the answer in the life of…
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Instead of a book review, I’d like to share some articles I’ve read recently. I enjoy getting the weekly digest email from JStor, the repository of academic journal articles and much more. This piece on Jane Goodall has some great quotes and links to some of her work. What an incredible force for good in…
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If ever there was a book to appeal to a botanist such as myself, this is primo! But even better, it’s written for people who aren’t scientists. Schlanger quit her job as a staff writer for The Atlantic to pursue a subject that had fired her curiosity for years: What is the true nature of…
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