Monthly Archives: February 2017

How I Became a Restroom Warrior

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I didn’t set out to become a restroom vigilante.  No, I was forced into it bit by bit through the actions of a woman who treated the women’s room in our office building as her private office. Continue reading →

Snow Geese

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I awoke yesterday morning to the sound of hundreds of snow geese in the farmer’s fields behind our home.  They show up every year to rest and to glean the leftover corn to fill their bellies before moving further north.  Ultimately, they will arrive at their breeding grounds in the Arctic tundra.  I look forward to their annual visit because they’re the only Arctic animal I get so see living here in Pennsylvania and because I’m amazed at the length of the journey they take every year, flying from the Arctic to the southern United States to winter in warm marshes, and then back to the far north every spring.  They arrived a month early this year.  Most years they show up in the middle of March, but spring arrived early here in Pennsylvania, and I knew that the geese, true harbingers of spring, would not be far behind. Continue reading →

Kumm Esse

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The first time I met her she told me to call her Grandma.  Although my husband and I were only dating at the time, and although she was his grandmother, she instantly welcomed me into the family and for the rest of her life she treated me and the spouses of all of her other grandchildren, as one of her own. Continue reading →