by T. Touris – A number of years ago a yellow-naped Amazon parrot joined our family. This pretty bird, originally named Curly, was...
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Owl Outings ~ Caught up in the blues
On August 19, 2018 we found ourselves, quite deliberately and delightfully, settled into the VIP seating area of The Geneseo Riviera for...
Scouting for Myself: Chapter 2
by Katie Egan – I briskly walked through the double doors of the school hoping that nobody would notice my presence. I made my way...
World Trade Center art from William Wayne Page
The North Tower corner was my touch stone for when I needed inspiration to improve my life. Many were the times I’d go up onto the...
Infinite ocean of light and love
by Emily Pecora – I was living in New York City on September 11, 2001. I was in my mid-twenties, at home that morning, in Queens,...
Giving way to light
by Nancy Quinones – It was the year 2001 in Upstate New York. I was pregnant carrying my first child. I wanted everything to be...
Simple Sustainability: Sustainable diet
by Sky Trombly – I recently picked up a dieting book called The Jerusalem Diet by Ted Haggard. I don’t know what I expected,...
The Village Gardener: Tithonia rotundifolia or Mexican sunflower
by Georgeanne Vyverberg – It’s the final day of August with the heat index in the middle 90’s. My gardens are now in their...
Reflecting on Freedom in the “Land of the free”
Looking back on 9-11, there is no denying that we live in a dangerous world. Some of that safety – real or perceived – comes at a...