Endangered Lives

By Jean Blish Siers *

I’ve had two very different topics rattling around in my brain this week: endangered species, and American poverty and hunger.

My husband and I recently returned from a week’s vacation, hiking and biking on Assateague Island, which is both a National Wildlife Refuge and a National Seashore. We’re nature nerds and we spent hours every day looking at everything from shore birds to wild horses.

Two species particularly delighted us. Each day, we saw multiple bald eagles, including ...

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Anxiety Dreams

By Jean Blish Siers *

I have always had anxiety dreams: As a kid, I constantly dreamt that I headed to the first day of school in my pajamas with no idea where my classes were. Even now, my dreams are usually the grown up version of that: I’m at the airport with no ticket (for young people, we used to have a thing called a “ticket” to get on the plane), or I’m in a hotel room in a foreign ...

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No Substitute for Food

By Jean Blish Siers *

Because I love to cook and bake, living the last several weeks under stay-at-home orders hasn’t been as bad as it could have been. It’s given me the opportunity to work my way through some of the cookbooks I buy and never have the time to explore. Plus, I feel like I’m a pretty creative cook in the best of times. While baking typically demands at least a modicum of “following the rules,” often cooking (the ...

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