Category Archives: Outdoors and Nature

Before You Eat That Newt . . .

Having just read up on newts, I feel it’s my civic responsibility to post the following PSA: *****NEWT ALERT!!!***** UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES EAT A NEWT. Don’t do it. Put the newt down. I know you were thinking, “Hey, a newt! … Continue reading

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For the Love of a Tree

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

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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