Winter Trees

The trees look so bare and gray in the winter that it is hard to believe that they are the same trees that are so lush and green in the summer.

Evidence

There are some neighborhoods where you find spent shell cases in the road. In mine I find stray nerf bullets.

Not So Windy

There is rarely any wind in North Carolina. This makes windy days stand out. It is also shocking that when I go to other places that are windy because I am not used

Flatness

There is something unique about driving through the flatness of Midwestern farmland. The 360-degree view to the horizon is uninterrupted by trees, hills, or even buildings. When a pickup truck turns off the

The Greek Chorus

I read a book where the first person narrator spoke as “we”, not I. The narrator had the point of view of a group of neighbors, it was never explicitly identified who the