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After the deluge
Hurricane Helene stormed through the mountains of North Carolina in late September while my husband and I were visiting my son and his family in Melbourne, Australia. We watched the events unfold an ocean and a continent away.



Pick your poison
It’s probably a little late in the summer for this, but I need to make a public service announcement about poison ivy.

Illumination
The ground over which I now was watching these tiny sparks of light from my front porch was a place I had known the joy of kinship…

