Dear Classmates,

As I sit at my desk, the view through the window is one of snow-shrouded hills leading up to a sleeping woods.  Winter maintains a firm grip, thereby keeping me busy filling bird-feeders and writing all too-frequent and too-large checks to the energy cooperative!  It is that time of the year when we start to become disheartened and impatient, needing inspiration as we await the arrival of spring.  Read more...