Joining the conversation
Have you ever walked into a meeting or class that had already started? Or got kicked off a zoom call? Or started to respond and everyone looks at you, expectant and yet like you...
Category: Starting Out
Gatekeepers
While tending my friends’ birds, the rooster fluttered into my face, trying to scare me away. It almost worked since I’ve never tended chickens but truly felt threatened by a bird much smaller than...
Libraries and Librarians
Not all chickens or bookworms are alike. When I go to the library, I know why I am there. I want to get the book that I previously found online and go home, snuggle...
Bird-walking
Chickens are completely blind at night, even if they sleep with their nictating membrane over an open thirdeye (creepy!) I see about the same as chickens without glasses: Nothing! And I don’t have a...
Peculiar chirps
Newly hatched chicks chirp almost constantly, creating a chorus of constant but meaningless chatter. Hens and roosters are mostly silent, except for specific times of day and purposes. The chicks learn when to...
Living your Dash
Those who have passed were real people, but often become a dash, birth dash death. That’s how we write their data, but that dash is their whole world. That’s all fine and good but what...
Are you Chicken?
Are you Chicken? I am a chicken. Totally! I waited for over 20 years before doing anything that anyone else knew about…I was always listening on the sidelines but didn’t want to move into...
