I look at all the ivory colored flowers in my berry patch and smell a home-made dewberry pie. An offer to make it comes from one of the best pie persons in Fayetteville. All she needs is enough of this blackberry-like fruit: a quart will do. Of course I can’t divulge who it is. I don’t want to show favoritism within
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Ernie and I got a late start on our evening walk to the way back. On our return under a dusky sky his nose stopped and backed off something in a tuft of weeds: a snake. Without hesitation I picked up my pal and put him inside the shack. There was no need risking his getting a mortal bite. Immediately
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The Right to Privacy. I know, I know, it’s gone. Well, some of us won’t give up keeping it alive despite the onslaught. And there is one like-minded man who has done something major to support it. His name is Gabriel Weinberg. His creation is a real live, legitimate SEARCH ENGINE called DuckDuckGo with no tracking. Please don’t let your
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Ernie has now been with me since the end of last December. At about fifteen months old he gets to roam safely, free of big-city traffic and tumult. With his amazing nose he has replaced chasing tailpipes with pasture-resident rabbits, cows, goats and field mice. And I know he is happy because he tells me so. On numerous occasions sitting outside
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It is 2:22 a.m. Ernie starts barking. Not just one or two obligatory warnings, but a dedicated alarum. I flick on the outback lights. The beams highlight a solitary killdeer, a bird common to Texas and North America. What is the grounded aviator doing out there in the cold and fog at this early hour of a winter morning? Startled
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