chicago – The Birch Chronicle

The Smile

Dear Avid Reader, Spring pollen is flying. April is fading. It’s tulip time on State Street in Chicago. I don’t grow tulips. Each fall I flirt with the idea. They would give my front yard a colorful lift. Once I bought bulbs to plant tulips, hyacinths, and daffodils with good intention to get them inContinue reading “The Smile”

Etched in Her Heart

Dear Avid Reader, Sun’s up in Chi-Town. As this gemstone swings between a mild heat wave and arctic temperatures that only scare away the thin-blooded, everything is in flow and this flow is everything. The sky is as blue as the depths of Lake Michigan that are visible in front of a ghostly curtain ofContinue reading “Etched in Her Heart”