Moments to Remember

There are moments you need to remember. Today is not about the bear rug. Today is all about the lady’s expression when she saw me walk into her home who owns this bear rug. Margo’s jaw dropping astonishment smile and the tears that welled in her eyes humbled me. I’m glad I made the last…

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Writing of Cottonwoods

Oh, to be able to write like Willa Cather on cottonwoods! I must read more by her. Willa Cather Quote from Death Comes For The Archbishop: “Beside the river was a grove of tall, naked cottonwoods – trees of great antiquity and enormous size – so large that they seemed to belong to a bygone…

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Helping a Student in Minnesota

Environmental and biological teaching outreach comes from the most unexpected places. I do not know how a teacher/principal in Minnesota found my blog but he did and this is the outreach opportunity. An email arrived via my blog asking me for skull identification help. The science teacher recounted that he had a student who visited…

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