Migrations and Ruminations on a Gloomy Fall Day

From my third floor office I look eastward across flat, brown fields to a horizon of trees, broken by a few distant houses. It’s late afternoon and as the overcast sky slowly fades, hundreds of Canada geese fly past my window, some in large flocks, some in smaller groups of six or eight and a few solo. They stop off briefly in the now barren fields or on the pond next door, then rise again, wheeling as the flock coalesces and heads off to wherever it is they go.

Methodist Eggrolls

What is it about Methodists that seems to compel them to make eggrolls? Picture several dozen retired church members, some wearing bucket hats with the stitched slogan “Holy Roller”, intently chopping veggies and pork, rolling the mixed ingredients into delicate wrappers and deep frying it all in the church kitchen.

Bear hit by car in Midland County

Yesterday’s edition of the Midland Daily Fishwrapper had this headline: “Bear Hit by Car in Midland County” – it was just a teenage bear and no one seems to be thinking of the poor bear. Although there are rural areas in the county, we don’t tend to think of it as “wild” or the sort of place inhabited by such beasts.