It’s so easy to see our enemies as — well, enemies. What does it take to re-see them as human? Late in life, Erika Jacoby and Ursula Martens took an incredible journey. Not the sort of journey that takes you by jet halfway around the world. No, the sort of
This past month, the swans have taken up residence in our local cove, for the first time in the six summers we’ve lived here. What could be a more beautiful way to celebrate the birth minute of my husband’s milestone birthday than a sunrise with swans? What smiles the swans
Lesson 1: Like the ducks and brants my husband and I see congregating regularly by the dozens along the shore’s edge of Narraganssett Bay near our coastal home, we humans are a social species. (Audobon’s description of the Brant: “Feeds in flocks at most times of year”), Whether indoors or