How Corny is This?

  Happy National Candy Corn Day! Lots of people hate Candy Corn. Lots of people love it. How do I know? Because nine billion candy-corn KERNELS, or thirty-five million pounds, are produced every year! Somebody is loving that velvety smooth texture, the...

The Silence of the Trees

Sometime in autumn… I’m outside for reasons other than enjoying nature, my mind dripping with copious thoughts of numerous and diverse things, hurrying along, when suddenly, IT surrounds me like a cloak. You might say . . . IT arrests me. I stop. Look around. Listen....