Remember these days when soaring on a swing made you feel like you could really fly, and that there were no limits holding you back? Ah, youth! Perhaps we all need to make a playdate for ourselves and soar once more to see just how high we still can go. . . .

Happy Birthday to my son, BC, who turns 2 today! He just loves to have a lot of fun in the kitchen… :) (oh–and just to reassure all of you: the stove was not on at the time of this pic!)

At the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we launched our anthology, September Eleven: Maryland Voices at the state library, and this was given to me by an anonymous reader that day…It conjures up feelings that have long since dissapated, sadly so, because of the events in Iraq…

This little emu welcomed us at our local petting zoo one morning…(shhh…she really thinks of herself as quite the beauty!)