Alice Gerard

  It’s J day! What do I write about? My favorite baseball team is the Toronto Blue Jays! No one is really talking about baseball yet. Jumping jacks? They give me vertigo! Oh never mind! Not that! How about something that we talk about incessantly? Our favorite topic of conversation these days seems to be […]

 “Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.  Let me see what spring is like A-Jupiter and Mars…” –Frank Sinatra If you have imagination, you can fly to the moon, dance with planets, and make stars into your friends. You can travel back or forward in time and you can go anywhere

Today, I took a hike in Buckhorn Island State Park. It was a beautiful early spring day. On my way to the park, I noticed that the forsythia is blooming, as well as the daffodils. It’s so encouraging to see all of that yellow. The forsythia blooming occurs in early spring. When that happens, you

  T.S. Eliot described April as the cruelest month in his poem “The Waste Land.” It is cruel, even though it’s the time for growth, for revival, for rebirth. Despite the beauty of the green growth, the potential for a bone chilling coldness and a sudden snowstorm is always present. Last April was an extension

  Yesterday, I went to Buffalo to talk to Janna Willoughby-Lohr about the paper flowers and seed bombs that she makes in her store/workshop, called Papercraft Miracles. The place where the paper magic happens is located in the Block Rock area of Buffalo, New York. If you were to walk by the store/workshop, you would

 Today, I shall try to avoid using any and all “eeeeee’s” in this blog post. Thou shalt go far away, thou horrid thing! Foul and corrupt contagion, fly far away. My world has grown wary of thy visit. My world has grown sad. My world sings no joyful songs for thou hast stayed too long.

 It feels like spring! Which is exciting because, when I think about last year, it’s so much warmer. The world was shut down and winter kept going on and on. In fact, it snowed in May. All right, so I know that Buffalo has this bizarre reputation as the Snow Capital of the World, even

C is for cookie. Yummy, delicious cookies made by Ellen DeNormand, who formerly owned the bakery, “Momma De’s.” It was a fun place where you could get cookies and cupcakes and all sorts of sweet treats. And not only that, you could get a culinary education. Ellen offered workshops in decorating cookies and cakes. Of

Breathe in Breathe out Breathe free Breathe life More than a year after shut down began, the world has changed in ways that I find confusing and that I have not yet begun to process. It gets overwhelming at times and that’s when I need to focus on my breathing. Breathe in breathe out Breathe

  Yesterday, I saw this outside. I was so excited to see something alive and yellow. I had to go take a picture of it at once. So I did! There wasn’t a moment to lose. Today, I saw something different! It was… snow.  What kind of April fool’s day trick is that? Okay, I