Well, thank goodness for the high-speed Internet access in most hotels these days, for I’m sitting by my lonesome in a Holiday Inn. It’s eleven o’clock at night, and after reading and sipping spring water in the Columbia, South Carolina, airport for five hours this evening, my flight back to New York was cancelled due…

I’ve been following Patty Lemer’s writings on autism spectrum disorders for years. Lemer is the co-founder of Developmental Delay Resources, a non-profit organization integrating conventional and holistic therapies for children with sensory-system challenges. Years ago, without payment or complaint, she spent forty-five minutes on the phone with me discussing therapy options for one son whose…

I spent five days in South Carolina watching my father’s hummingbird feeder and I didn’t spy a single hummer even though my dad’s live-in caretaker said only days ago that she saw seven different ones. I have compensated by researching hummingbird websites, locating brilliant online hummingbird photographs, and finding a helpful map of the ruby-throated…

The Hummingbirdsby Charlotte Smith Minutest of the feathered kind,Possessing every charm combined,Nature, in forming thee, designed A proof within how little spaceShe can comprise such perfect grace,Rendering the lovely; fairy race You’ll find more hummingbird poems here!

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