Christmas is coming and even in this super-technological world, some of us still like to curl up with a good book. If you are such a person or if someone like that is on your Christmas list, you might be interested in one of the following books. Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing […]
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The Unexpected and Expected
It’s the tenth of August, and I can barely believe my ears. A wood thrush is singing two weeks later than I’ve ever heard one before. Such a wonderful, unexpected gift so late in the season when most birdsong has been replaced by the buzzing and chirping of crickets and grasshoppers. But then it is […]
Lives of Woodland Snails
Imagine having the time to watch the life of a woodland snail. That’s what happened to Elizabeth Tova Bailey when she was felled by a mysterious neurological illness that put her flat on her back. She could not move without pain, and so she was tended by a caregiver in a studio apartment. Then, one […]
A second life for “Escape to the Mountain”
Never ignore your junk mail. That’s a lesson I learned a year ago last July when I found an e-mail in my junk mail folder from an agent in New York City. She was representing a small press in Virginia — Axios Press — that was interested in reprinting my first book, Escape to the […]
Marcia Bonta 