Rooster art I picked up in Chicago last Memorial Day weekend There are certain things that really bring home the realization that your own problems are very tiny. Maybe you hear about a tragedy on the news or, in my case, you know a person who’s experiencing something very devastating. […]

Flowers of a crabapple tree that graces our front yard We moved into our house in June, when summer was more or less already in swing. It was the following spring, as we were driving around from here to there, that I began to notice all of these beautiful flowering […]