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MaryBaldiniOlson

If I were a flower I would be a sunflower. A sunflower is open facing the sun, always looking outward. Being tall reaching farther up than other flowers. I am not tall and have wondered what it would be like never needing a stool to reach something. Being tall the sunflower was given the gift of being closer to the sun and its warmth,and closer to the first drops of rain. The sunflower reminds me of sunshine. Their bouquet brings a brightness even on a wintry day. Sunflowers are the color of friendship. They are a friend to birds who eat their seeds. Juncos, Black-capped chickadees, and the Blue jays are frequent visitors to the cache of seeds the sunflower holds. The little black ovals the sunflower carries are a guaranteed way to draw the birds in closer. One of my favorite things is watching the birds where I can sit and be entertained by my feathered friends as they flit from branch to flower to feeder to branch to crack open their treasure. So now you know why. If I were a flower I would be a Sunflower.

Greetings!

I am so glad you are here to join me on my writing journey. I have been a writer for the past fifty years. discovering my passion for writing when I was in college. I am a professional naturalist having led hikes and taught classes in city, state and national parks in Illinois, Michigan, and Vermont. My essays have been inspired by my travels across the United Stated and Canada. I am a mother of five and grandmother of five who are also the subject of many writings. Cozy up with one of my books of essays or connect to my memoir which is written knowing there are wives and mothers who have traveled down the same bumpy road that I have navigated.

I look forward to you following me on my writing journey. Mary

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INDIE MARKETS

Poetry – Ninth Letter (print journal), Harbor Review (online journal), Split Lip Magazine (online journal), Bennington Review (online & print), Foglifter (print LBGTQIA+)

Fiction – Ecotone (print journal), Normal School (print journal), Adroit Journal (online journal), Hunger Mountain (online journal), One Story (print journal)

Nonfiction – Zyzzyva (print journal), Brick (print magazine), Emergence (print magazine), Agni (print journal), Hobart (print magazine)