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February 17, 2014 This morning an ice storm hit the country. My front green concrete porch was glazed with black ice. My up-sloping driveway was as slick and curved and steep as the Sochi luge run. Clifton Terrace road was … Continue reading →

February 7, 2014  I have been struggling with depression, made all the worse by the devastating weather. I had two major surgeries in eight weeks, and allergic reactions to three medications. I’ve been sleeping two and three hours a night. … Continue reading →

January 28, 2014  I stood on the riverbank last Sunday and watched eleven bald eagles rafting on ice floes. A lone pelican swooped low above open water patches. The sun was blinding. It was sixty-one degrees. I wore a black … Continue reading →

January 25, 2014   I live in the darkness of light I live in the still of the wind In the blindness of sight In the hush of birdsong In the sere of the rain . . . There is … Continue reading →

January 16, 2014 Scout the Cat sits on my desk, behind the computer, and watches birds through the south facing window. Every few minutes she swivels her head and stares at me. I know she’s content because she isn’t yowling. … Continue reading →

January 11, 2014 One week after the blizzard and it is over fifty degrees, and sunshine and vitamin D and westwind burn. And I do the Genehouse walk and it is like sailing. The hills are saturated; the rocks are … Continue reading →

January 5, 2014.  I was mopping my apartment’s kitchen floor in Chicago when the phone rang, in June of 1983. A man said, “Mr. Baldwin? This is Bill Hunt calling.” Silence. “William Hunt? You don’t know who I am. You … Continue reading →

January 1, 2014  I did the Genehouse trail this morning, down Clifton Terrace to the Great River Road, west to Stanka Lane and up Stroke Hill to Route 3. It was forty degrees, with little wind. I saw flocks of … Continue reading →

December 30, 2013 My bank gifted me with a fifty dollar Amazon card. I didn’t really need anything so I chose whimsy—music. Which is how, “The Essential Leonard Cohen” arrived at Genehouse, on Christmas Eve. Last night, I opened the … Continue reading →

December 26, 2013  Geologists worldwide have been working toward naming a new epoch. Look for the Anthropocene, or as it’s subtitled, The Sixth Extinction (author Elizabeth Colbert’s designation), coming to updated textbooks everywhere. Generally epochs are designated by fossil records—places … Continue reading →