Category Archives: Michigan

For the Love of a Tree

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Foxworld

Across the stream behind my late-boyhood home in Cascade, Michigan, there stretched a forest where hepaticas bloomed purple and pink in the spring, profusions of trilliums scattered like popcorn beneath the understory, and colonies of downy rattlesnake plantain and shining … Continue reading →

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The Squirrel on the Screen Door

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Foxworld

I’m sitting here in my couch, editing some Bible study notes on my laptop, when I hear something go “whump!” I glance left toward the patio and see that a squirrel has jumped up onto the screen door and attached … Continue reading →

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The Swamp, the Boy, and the Raft

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Foxworld

The old swamp spread for several acres among the trees, a dismal, brooding place guarded by fierce tangles of poison ivy. By August it was just a damp hollow filled with beggar’s tick. But most of the year the swamp … Continue reading →

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