For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
For Random Learning Comes
For Random Learning Comes: Essays Fiction and Poetry by Andrea LeDew
acknowledging the impact of the great unknown
Lately, in Florida, where I live, there have been two trains of thought on school-re-openings. The first is: “Yes! Please open up the schools already! Our kids are driving us crazy and we can’t get any work done. Besides, kids don’t get sick from the Coronavirus, anyway, do they?” The other train of thought says: …
Nature doesn’t Mind The sky has opened up, and buckets of rain come pouring down—the first real super-soaker of the summer. And yes, April is summer here in Florida. It is a relief, to see the elements acting as they should, even though the rest of the world seems off-kilter. Birds still sing, rain still …
Spring. This is the time of year, even in the coldest climate, when your thoughts turn to gardens. You may not, necessarily, spend a lot of time thinking about the work of gardening: the clearing of the spent beds, the weeding, the digging, the planting, the fertilizing, the mulching. But you do relish and long …
This essay was first published in early 2018, the day after the Parkland massacre in South Florida. A young man returned to his high school –named after Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, the author of River of Grass, a scientific love song to the Florida Everglades. He then proceeded to open fire, killing seventeen students. With …
We are having a rare bout of cold weather in North Florida. And when I say “cold”, I am not using the regional definition, that is, anything under 60 degrees Fahrenheit. I am talking twenties and thirties here. Snow was reported. I had to scrape frost off my car. Such things are not common around …
