“We’ve all got our own little clovers with worlds on them!” …
My friend told me about her grandparents day experience in a voice filled with happy love that reminded me of this reading of Goodnight Moon. She and her husband went to surprise…
My time chasing the Monarch Ultra team sped by but left me changed. Or, rather, changing. In the hour-long stretches of waiting for runners I observed how the team of…
It’s finally fall here in Indiana. I don’t say finally because I’ve been pining for it, but because we have historically been a four seasons state, with each season announcing…
The daily flight range for a migrating monarch is twenty-five to thirty miles, according to Monarch Joint Venture. I cite that source because last week I watched, fender-bender-gawker-style, as several…
It turns out that this is a story of community. I thought it was going to be about butterflies, and wonder, and people who have passion for both. And it…
She hung the moon and watched over the sleeping butterflies, whilst carrying hundreds of babies. Before the kids grumbled out of bed this morning, before the alarms and pet noises,…
Come cheer for monarchs in Fort Wayne! The Monarch Ultra is heading to Fort Wayne Thursday, just as the monarch butterflies will be passing through on their way south. Local…
Each time I open the Monarch Ultra website the first thing to pop up is the countdown clock. There’s nothing like a visual of time ticking down to jump start…
It was one of those late summer days, glossy with sun and blue sky, when my friend Kerri and I drove over to Springfield, Ohio for their Monarch and Bluegrass…