orange butterfly with comma shaped wings

Sketches on the Wing

One ritual that always grounds me and limbers up my imagination is walking to the nearest park or green space to hunt for butterflies. It is my long goodbye to summer. In just a few weeks, this will start to disappear… Eastern Comma A flash of bright orange caught my eye. My brain assumed “monarch” […]

It’s Suddenly September…

The world has changed since I last posted. At the time, I was gearing up for traveling to Virginia, Maryland, and the Chicago area in June and and July. And I was still (naively) hopeful that I could get back into a writing routine (as is always the case) before an auspicious date in August. […]