Ways of Seeing: Handling short days, long nights

When late October arrives, lots of people are planning this year’s Halloween costumes, buying candy for trick-or-treaters, or otherwise filling their days with happy anticipation of a sugar-filled holiday. Not me. I am thinking about the time. Every year when Daylight Savings Time ends, I have to think hard about whether time will fall backward or forward. I remember once many years ago, I changed all my clocks one hour ahead, and it was hours before I realized my error. These days, electronic devices adjus … (read more)

This is a confession. I am a hoarder of the written word. I am surrounded, subsumed, obsessed by ideas, humor, thoughts, possibilities, fantasies, and happenings that are manifested in books and articles. This obsession is very obvious in my personal surr … (read more)

The goldfinch hung on my window screen, its bold yellow back with black stripe shone in the light as it held on casually, confidently, pecking every few seconds on something I could not see. Bugs? Seeds blown from the trees to lodge in the grating of the … (read more)