It’s the day, since 1970, that we remember where we live (that beautiful, blue rock that takes us around the Sun) and consider what habits we could adopt to be kinder to her. The brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson, who was elected to the United States Senate in 1962 from the state of Wisconsin, Earth Day was born to bring environmental issues and solutions to the forefront. Senator Nelson was inspired by the “teach-ins” about the Vietnam War being held on college campuses i

April 17th is National Haiku Day! Haiku poetry originated in Japan in the thirteenth century. In the beginning, haiku were the openings of longer poems called renga, which usually contained one hundred stanzas (a series of lines grouped together, dividing a poem). Renga are composed by two or more poets. Here’s more information from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica about this poetic form. A few hundred years later, or so, haiku was its own style of poetry. Most of us are familiar

Every year, in at least the past five years, maybe more, the weather in April is warmer. It used to be around May, in the Richmond, Virginia area, we’d sometimes start dealing with hot weather. I used to think that was too soon too, feeling cheated out of my spring as I’m usually cheated out of my fall, my favorite season. I’m from the North—New York. Why did I start moving south? I declare right now, I am not moving farther south than where I am at this point in time. You wi