I hadn’t ever considered (prior to today) that doctors have an important commonality with weathermen: neither can give an accurate forecast. Consider: weathermen are very often wrong with their predictions. Likewise, my mother’s doctor was unwilling to answer the question, …
When we arrived in New Hampshire in early June, one of the first sounds I heard was the inimitable arguing of hummingbirds. I can hardly tell you how happy I was to find them here, since they’re one of my …
From almost the first day we arrived here, there’s been an enormous waterbird stalking our pond — no doubt because we have an abundance of these: Or should I say, we had an abundance. Daily visits to the smorgasbord have …