Look at them! Look at them in their bare legs poking out from beneath shorts and flowing skirts, feet exposed in sandals, arms soaking up the sun in short sleeves and halter tops, saying to each other: What a beautiful day! Isn’t the sun lovely! It’s so warm!
Then look at me. Continue reading
The gravestones can be seen now, from the far side of Meadow Lake. They rise, chunks of slate embedded into a green hill, into a blue sky, looking like a skyline for a town of the dead. Massive oak and weeping willows once gave the dead privacy, but those trees are no more. Continue reading
Our ever-active sun has emitted a coronal mass ejection at 1:41 AM EDT on Tuesday, resulting in a rather spectacular display of Aurora Borealis tonight. The Northern Lights are expected to be visible on the northern horizon as far south as Portland, OR, and following a straight line across the nation to Washington D.C.
So it has arrived. The dreaded heatwave season.
I was an October baby. I was born outside Boston, brought into the world as the leaves were turning and the frost was coating the ground at night. Continue reading