Lead By Example By Linda Stowe The first political campaign I remember was when Dwight Eisenhower ran against Adlai Stevenson. It was 1952 and I was eight years old at the time. For some reason I thought the candidate’s name was Artsy Stevenson, maybe because I had never heard the name Adlai before. Regardless, I […]

I love birds.But here is the thing.The bird populations are declining mostly because of us dumb, dumb humans and our numb-skulled treatment of the Earth. The biodiversity crisis has come directly to our backyards. I recently read that in less than a single human lifetime, 2.9 billion breeding adult birds have been lost from the

Have you ever noticed that those “creative types” can sometimes be quirky? If you are laughing because I am the pot, calling the kettle black, I understand. Guilty as charged. But I’m on the low end of the creative scale, so my “quirks” are down there with me, maybe. Anyway. The “heavy hitters” in the

People search for meaning and purpose in their lives. Most people. What does our existence mean?What is our place here on Earth or in this Universe?Who are we? Why are we the way we are? Yes. The questions about our internal being abound.Who. What. Why.How? Humans, through the years, have created things to try and

When squirrels land, they land just like little superheroes. Honest to goodness. I know. I’ve talked about squirrels before. But I just love them. I don’t care if they do sit on our bird feeders and eat. They get hungry like the rest of us. Squirrels are amazing if you ask me. Just take some

Well. Another lap around the sun.That’s 365 days. Or 8,760 hours.Which turns out to be a whole lot of minutes.About 525,600. Think of all the Minute Rice one could make.Or Minute Maid. But I’m not sure the drink brand works like that. And then, of course, you can have a New York Minute. Or, as

I’m a bit of a hypocrite. Let’s just get that out of the way. In my defense, I think we all have been hypocrites at some point in our lives. For clarity’s sake:Hypocrisy: The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform. Maybe there is a

Hurtful By Linda Stowe Yesterday someone said something to me that was deliberately hurtful. It was one of those passive-aggressive comments that gives the other person deniability, but we both knew that the comment was meant to hurt. And it did. It also made me angry but, being a non-confrontational woman, I didn’t react. Today