Refractions

Refractions

Why should it happen that the smallest  zig-zagging black cricket one stick leg raised— a musician’s baton, holds and then releases the same song as my canoe paddle slicing into glass?   Boundary Water’s evening lake still, mirroring like memory doubles you here and...
December Poem, 2013

December Poem, 2013

Drop my children off at another parent’s house To free up time to drive aimlessly, listening to FM radio, waiting for a song that I feel deeply Connected to, stopping in small towns to pump Gasoline, eager to make acquaintances with the Cashier, a woman who tells me...
Wide Eyed

Wide Eyed

Grounded in a sense of wonder and awe, Wide Eyed departs from a reactionary response to my surroundings. I approach this series of photographs with the spirit of the wanderer and emphasize egalitarianism with the images I select. Wide Eyed persists as the undercurrent...
Citizen Science in Wisconsin

Citizen Science in Wisconsin

Kathy Mehls is a retired high school guidance counselor from Chippewa Falls with an abiding love of birds and the outdoors. Most days, Mehls experiences the sciences vicariously through her daughter Casey, a biologist working to protect endangered species in South...