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Raccoon, Rabbit, Rat
Early in the morning as the sun is just beginning to rise an adult rabbit is under the bird feeders which are hung in the tree outside my bedroom window. A short while later a second adult rabbit joins in for breakfast. As I get myself ready for the day I check the window again…
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Books, Boats, and BOOMS!
The 4th of July is here. There is no better place to see fireworks than New York City. My granddaughter with one of her friends and I headed to the Big Apple for the celebration. We left early Thursday morning by train, of course. We arrived at Moynihan Train Hall in Penn Station around 9pm.…
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Earth’s Thumbprint
A muggy evening, it was a Friday in August, in central Illinois. It was late when the phone rang. The nurse on the other end was telling me it didn’t look like my mom was going to make it through the night. Mom passed away before the sun rose the following day. After she was…
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I Can’t Believe That Happened!
Here’s one more train story too good to not share. Several weeks ago my youngest son was heading to a wedding of a close friend. My son lives in New York City and the wedding was in Los Angeles. He chose to take the train for several reasons. First, the airlines were having issues with…
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Big Lake
Memorial Day weekend has come and gone so we decided to take the camper out for our first trip of 2026. We headed out on a Tuesday. Destination Big Lake State Park in northwestern Missouri. Earlier in the week the weather was predicted to have 75% rain. The weatherman was wrong. We had beautiful sunny…
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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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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)
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