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I am fortunate. I live in an area where wildlife and humans coincide. My yard is a well established trail way for deer and moose who sometimes bed down, nibble on my fruit trees or eat bird seed from my feeder. Then there are the geese, who when flying south for the winter, take a…

For the first eight years of my life, I had the privilege of growing up in Nebraska in close proximity to my relatives. I lived in the same town as my maternal grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousins. Although my maternal great grandmother lived in Idaho, she’d sometimes visit her oldest daughter, my grandmother.   Though my…

As a classroom teacher I have the privilege of watching my students grow and change over the course of the nine months we are together. They come into my classroom more like third graders than fourth, but by the end of the school year, they morph in more ways than one. They grow taller, become…