It was sometime during the fourth grade that my ten-year-old nose was coerced into cohabitating with a pair of spectacles. At least that’s the year they began showing up in school pictures, little pink cat eyes that made me look perpetually shell-shocked. I hated wearing them, and finally...

Part 3: The Tree of Life The wilderness, the unknown, the future – these are the things that trouble us throughout our lives.   For many of us this existence is a scary thing.  We try not to think about it so much but sometimes we can’t help it – or at minimum I can’t help it.  So...

Part 1: Trees In my front yard today is an inconvenient tree – a magnolia tree.  I am pretty sure aliens invented this tree and one day all the magnolias will rise up and enslave the earth in year-round maintenance.  If you know about magnolia trees, you know that they flower and that is...