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October 19, 2012

Seasons and Heartbeats

Age: 68. These days the seasons are less like a perfume to me and more like a clock. When I was young, autumns were my favorite season—painfully romantic, full of the future, life-enhancing and lonely at the same time. The… Continue reading
September 28, 2012

Katydids, Cicadas, Crickets, Grasshoppers

In last Sunday’s New York Times (September 23), in her wonderful article, “A Little Night Music,” Diane Ackerman contemplates the chorus of katydids, crickets, grasshoppers and cicadas whose evening serenade from backyards and fields in temperate zones this time of… Continue reading