©Martha Hurwitz, Wells Beach, Maine, 3/9/20 RDP: Sunshine
Signs and Portents
Shortly after my mother died, I was taking a walk in the early evening around the fields in back of my home. I am fortunate to live in a beautiful location, with expansive Eastern views and uninterrupted skies. On this particular night it was clear, the moon was in its first quarter and the light…
Patient Seeds
The carob pods seemed so ugly. Why would anyone ever think to use them for food or bring them to a potluck? Perhaps my prejudice came from all those earnest attempts back in my counter-culture youth to convince me that carob is a perfectly good substitute for chocolate. Not a chance! Carob may be useful…
What’s in a Name?
Many years back, when both my husband and I could still bend over without crackling sounds and shooting pains coming from the general area of our spines, we owned and operated a pick-your-own strawberry farm. This was an endeavor that he had started several years before I came on the scene. In the rose-colored, early…
Beware the Swarm
Before responding to the daily prompt, I typed swarm into Google to see what definitions the word has of which I might not be aware. It says a lot about our current culture that the first 10 hits led me to Swarm, a new game App that rewards players for visiting more places than their friends…
