" Northern Bobwhite and Red-shouldered Hawk watercolor study " by John James Audubon Photo Source: GetArchive The Secret Admirers The June bugs thump against my window at night and it sounds like someone knocking, I turn on the light and it’s just bugs bumping against the window pane. Because it’s midnight it should be something magical a crow, a mouse, a squirrel, a little person but because this is the real world it’s just a cluster of insects throwing themselves against the side of my...

Photo Source: PxHere Housewarming We fill our home with mismatched groves of pine and oak and molded plastic chairs, put monogrammed napkins at every place setting. The scientists come right on time to study our relationship, offer kind, unwelcome comments as we pass plates laden with meat and cheese refill their glasses with wine. This one is my father, that one is your mother, there are others, too. They exchange notes, compare findings, shake their heads and sigh at something incurable,...