i wonder if february is lonely. i wonder if that’s the reason she pulls the clouds down over her face for days at a time. i wonder if that’s why she hurls rain and sleet and slushy snow at the windows–usually late at night, pinging and banging at me curled in my flannel sheets. i [...]

i love spring. when the crust of winter is split by crocus and snowdrops and daffodils. cardinals return to the trees, the males with their signature lusty song and the females with their rouged cheeks and pinked beaks. trees burst into flowers. the air is filled with the petals of the magnolia. the spring is [...]

there is a little space on the north end of mentor-on-the-lake on the lip of lake erie. a strip of grass. a porch swing stuck in cement. and sky, so much sky. for a little western claustrophobe like me, this is the only place in my dear ohio where i feel like i can breathe. long [...]

i’m going to admit it. i love target. i love the target on cedar-warrensville. i do. i do.