Tag Archives: 2026

Critterwatch 2026, Continued.

Critters spotted:

  1. house finches
  2. robins
  3. ravens (they are seriously large birds, people, holy shit)
  4. sparrows (the kind with the striped faces, passer domesticus)
  5. northern mockingbirds (the kind with those little white racing stripes on the wings)
  6. the giant, creepy-ass turkey vultures are back! (Or, at least one was.)
  7. giant grasshoppers! (Probably Melanoplus differentialis.)
  8. ugh, earwigs
  9. green lacewings, which are actually really pretty insects


“Vulture,” Antoine-Louis Barye, 19th Century

On Memorial Day, we remember the fallen.

And we are grateful to those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

Photo credit: Tom McClintock, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Watership Nolan.

It’s Easter morning and a I just saw a bunny!

😀



 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

“The Wearing of the Green,” Ellen H. Clapsaddle, 1907

Sealed-off door at 8 North Jefferson Street in Roanoke, Virginia.

Facing Shenandoah Avenue.  2026.

The building was originally constructed at the start of the 20th Century as office space for Norfolk & Western Railroad.

Intersection of Shenandoah Avenue and North Jefferson Street in Roanoke, Virginia, 2026

The building on the corner is 8 North Jefferson Street.

North Jefferson Street in Roanoke, VA, 2026

Looking south.

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Photo: Clopper Mill Elementary Hearts for Heroes

Poster for “Greenland 2: Migration” (2026)

Lionsgate Films.

The Galway Review publishes my poem “Where Would We Go?” — and also selects it for its 2026 anthology.

I’m ecstatic!  The Galway Review today published my poem “Where Would We Go?” — and also selected it for its next anthology, The Galway Review 14.

You can find the poem at The Galway Review online right here.

The anthology will be released in April 2026; I’ll post purchasing details when they become available.

The Galway Review is the leading literary magazine for Galway, the fourth largest city in the Republic of Ireland.  It features contemporary reviews, fiction, non-fiction, poetry and photography, and seeks to publish work that is “beautiful and different.”

I am once again grateful to Managing Editor Ndrek Gjini and his colleagues for allowing me to see my work showcased by this important literary resource for Northern Europe and beyond.