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BIRTHDAY CAKE  Measuring Spoons   Our advice?  Be precise.  Kitchen Aid   I stand…  I mix, blend,  whip, stir, knead…  at your command.  Ca...

PETTY THEFT the  snatch was a fluke the  move abandoned denied   for fun and fickle income and that ...

Photo Credit:  Farmanac iPhone App MURDER? Sunflower sprouts on my chicken salad: baby sunflower plants. Infanticide? No, ...

YOU'RE MAKING A  BIG  ASSUMPTION Willie Morris  is a catasaurus, yet his voice is a dainty "mew." Don't let...

SPRING IS A QUICK CHANGE ARTIST sky darkens thunder comes rain pounds  down sky lightens clouds part chirps...

STREAMSIDE On the path a girl is strolling, by the path a stream is rolling. In the stream the water glitters, under water crawdad skitte...

BOXED IN They've made their home in a commercial zone. He struts down the walk where no predators stalk: the vigilan...

COLLABORATION Teaching is collaboration, Not an act in isolation. Empty vessels don't exist, Learners' efforts must ...

WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE A REDBUD IN SPRING Burst first. Amaze with the cavalier way you explode whole constellations of purple stars from y...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo "Mother Hen and Chicks" by Frances Taylor I'M YOUR MOM I'm your mom when you're in...

WHERE I'M FROM I'm from the smell of chlorine and the heat of sun-baked cement by the pool. I'm from cherry tomatoe...

Phlebotomist It's about the needle and it's about the tourniquet. It's about the alcohol and it's about the tap-tap-ta...

photo by  gabyu SWIMMING First it's about the shock of the cold and the strength of the first five laps. Then, for the n...

Wild Atrocity by Mary Lee Hahn Glory be to God for silly things -- For running-dives all in a pile of musky autumn leaves; For r...