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Category: Wildlife

I’ll Take Florida, Critters and All

As published in Florida Wildlife Magazine. Illustration by Mike Wright, freelance artist from Longwood, Florida. They tell me those gigantic wolf spiders are completely harmless, but I don’t believe it. How can anyone say such a thing when people must be tripping and breaking their necks trying to get away from…

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Essay, Florida, Humor, Wildlife Florida Wildlife Magazine, flying squirrel, humor, Mike Wright, published essay, wolf spider

Looking for Lizard Poop (and Coral Smith’s breasts)

What’s the affirmation for today? I look for more ways to appreciate. There’s a lizard in the house. At least I hope it’s a lizard. It could be something worse, like a snake or a frog. But something that shouldn’t be in the house is in the house. How do…

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Cats, Humor, Life, Wildlife, Writing cats, Coral Smith's breasts, lizard poop, semantics

Baby birds chirp, hummingbirds slurp, and I write

What’s the affirmation for today? First I seek JOY, and all else follows. Once upon a time, my desk window overlooked my garden. Ah, how I loved to sit there and write. The window faced east, but the rising sun in the morning was blocked by a row of trellises…

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Florida, Life, Nature, Wildlife, Writing coral honeysuckle, joy, nature, trellis, wildlife, writing

Raising Serial Killers

I guess I’m raising serial killers. Don’t they say serial killers start out by torturing small animals? Okay, so I’m talking about my cats, and the small animals are lizards, snakes, butterflies and frogs. That doesn’t make it any less painful—for me anyway. I know it’s all part of nature—this…

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Cats, Florida, Humor, Wildlife cats, humor, lizards, wildlife
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