Giving Voice to My Astonishment

Links to Published Articles and Essays:

Cary Living Magazine Making a Difference: The Romance of Raptor Rescues November/December 2017 (also appeared in Midtown) https://issuu.com/midtown/docs/cary-web-all_cb44a21eb66db6/80 Western Wake Surges Forward January/February 2018 Midtown Magazine  Feeling Stressed? Take Five and Go Outside September/October 2017 http://www.midtownmag.com/feeling-stressed Green Thumbs for All March/April 2018 (also appeared in Cary Living) http://www.midtownmag.com/green-thumbs-for-all/ All the Buzz About Bees May/June 2018  http://www.midtownmag.com/all-the-buzz-about-bees/ Animal Adventures Around Our State Midtown Magazine July/August 2018 Photo: Conservators Center http://www.midtownmag.com/animal-adventures/ Animal Adventures Around Our State Cary Living Magazine July/August 2018 Photo: NC Zoo http://www.caryliving.com/animal-adventures/ Gardening to Attract Birds July/August 2018 Midtown and Cary Living magazines

Photo: Will Stewart http://www.caryliving.com/home-and-garden/

Midtown Magazine July/August 2018 Minding Your Business: Flavors From Afar Polonez Polish Market http://www.midtownmag.com/on-the-home-scene/ Cary Living July/August 2018 Minding Your Business: Global Foods at Local Grocery Golden Hex European Groceries and Deli http://www.caryliving.com/minding-your-business/ Midtown September/October 2018 Out on the Town: Dog-Friendly Raleigh http://www.midtownmag.com/out-on-the-town-dogfriendly-raleigh/ Cary Living September/October 2018 A Page in Time http://www.caryliving.com/a-page-in-time/ Discover the Wild West http://www.caryliving.com/discover-the-wild-west/ Fall Fun For All http://www.caryliving.com/fun-for-all/ Cary Living November/December 2018 Cary’s Finest… Sometimes Have Four Legs and a Commanding Bark http://www.caryliving.com/carys-finest/ A Holiday Tradition Burns Bright Across Cary http://www.caryliving.com/a-tradition-burns-bright https://issuu.com/midtown/docs/cary-web-all_bed3383a16e15c/40 Cary Living January/February 2019 (also in Midtown) Building Community: Africa Connections Love Abounds is Changing Lives http://www.caryliving.com/building-community  Community: Showtime for Downtown Cary http://www.caryliving.com/community-showtime-in-downtown-cary/ Midtown Magazine March/April 2019 To Every Life a Season: Historic Oakwood Cemetery’s Death Letter Project http://www.midtownmag.com/downtown Cary Living March/April 2019 Plant it Forward: Celebrate Arbor Day in Downtown Cary http://www.caryliving.com/community-scene O. Henry Magazine March 2019 Heaven in a Wildflower http://www.ohenrymag.com/botanicus-7/ Seasons Style & Design Spring 2019 The Garden Guru: Flora’s Abode http://seasonsmagazinenc.com/the-garden-guru/ Seasons Style & Design Summer 2019 The Garden Guru: Wild Kingdom https://seasonsmagazinenc.com/the-garden-guru-2/ Midtown Magazine May/June 2019 Also appeared in Cary Living Urban Nesting: Tour d’Coop http://www.midtownmag.com/on-the-community-scene-urban-nesting Cascading Wonders: Waterfall Adventures Across North Carolina https://www.midtownmag.com/cascading-wonders Citizen Scientists Unite http://www.midtownmag.com/education-prairie-ridge-ecostation Salt Magazine July 2019 Come Sit a Spell! http://www.saltmagazinenc.com/come-sit-a-spell/ Cary Living July/August 2019 A Sense of Place: Historical Preservation Enhances Cary’s Character and Charm http://www.caryliving.com/a-sense-of-place Seasons Style & Design Fall 2019 The Garden Guru: Come Sit a Spell! In Praise of Garden Benches http://seasonsmagazinenc.com/the-garden-guru-3/ Cary Living September/October 2019 http://www.caryliving.com/local-breweries Nature Bathing: Cary Offers 80 Miles of Greenways http://www.caryliving.com/new-page-1 Midtown Magazine September/October 2019 A Village Within http://www.midtownmag.com/a-village-within Seasons Style & Design Winter 2019 The Garden Guru: Hellebore Heaven http://seasonsmagazinenc.com/the-garden-guru-4/ Cary Living November/December 2019 Check it Out! Cary Regional Library Opens in November http://www.caryliving.com/landmark O. Henry November 2019 Taking Root http://www.ohenrymag.com/o-henry-ending-35/ Cary Living and Midtown Magazines January/February 2020 Recycling 2.0: What you need to know to master the art and science of recycling in 2020 http://www.midtownmag.com/new-page-46 Cary Living and Midtown Magazines January/February 2020 Plant, Prune, Plant: Now is the season to set the stage for spring and summer http://www.midtownmag.com/plantpruneplan Seasons Style & Design Spring 2020 Back to Nature: Sustainable gardening is easier than you might think https://seasonsmagazinenc.com/the-garden-guru-5/ Midtown and Cary Living March/April 2020 Garden Around the State: Botanical Destinations to Explore https://www.midtownmag.com/gardens-around-the-state Seasons Style & Design Fall 2020 Native Intelligence: Indigenous Plants Keep a Garden Healthy — and Beautiful https://seasonsmagazinenc.com/the-garden-guru-6/ Midtown and Cary Living Magazines November/December 2020 Planning Safe and Distant Holiday Meals https://www.midtownmag.com/planning-safe-and-distant-holiday-meals Midtown and Cary Living Magazines January/February 2021 Local Labyrinths: Take the Path to Well-being https://www.midtownmag.com/labyrinths Seasons Style & Design Winter 2020 The Garden Guru: Japanese Maple https://seasonsmagazinenc.com/the-garden-guru-7/ Work in Anthologies TAF Stays Home: 29 Freelancers Writing eds. Arlene Bice & Marilyn Iturri Essay ‘Nesting’ https://www.amazon.com/TAF-Stays-Home-freelancers-writing/dp/B08BWHQ7FS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=taf+stays+home&qid=1594052341&s=books&sr=1-1 The Atelier Project: Conversations About Creativity ed. Molly Murray Essay ‘Virginia Woolf: Creative Writing Teacher’ https://www.amazon.com/Atelier-Project-Conversations-About-Creativity/dp/1512271063/ Streetlight Magazine Guest Blog Post Taking the Next Right Step https://streetlightmag.com/?s=taking+the+right+step

Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies Essay ‘Roads Not Taken’ appears in VOL. XVIII:I.

Duke University Master’s Project on DukeSpace Bloomsbury and the Natural World This thesis explores the role that the natural world played in the art and writing of the Bloomsbury group. Very little academic work has been done on this topic beyond the coffee-table books on the gardens of Charleston Farmhouse and Monk’s House. Most serious work has been on the various themes of nature found in Virginia Woolf’s more popular novels. Nature is a prolific theme in the Bloomsbury Group’s painting and literature and they devoted much time to it. Their attitude towards nature was one of respect, not veneration like that of the Romantic period. They viewed man as a part of nature, not outside of nature, or controlling nature. Holding a biocentric view of nature, they eschewed the prevailing attitude of anthropocentricism. They were concerned with the idea of civilization and wrote extensively about what it meant to be civilized. Another major Bloomsbury theme was the contrast of nature wild versus nature tamed. These ideas were discussed, written about, and depicted in their artwork. This paper investigates the aforementioned Bloomsbury topics and also includes man (and woman’s) relationship to nature, terror in the garden, joy in the garden, and the protection of nature.