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Smitten

By Steven Chamblee • May 19, 2016

It all started when I was thirteen years old. I was a perfectly happy kid, mindlessly plowing my way through this life, when it arrived in the mail. Suddenly, my …

Against the Wind…

By Steven Chamblee • April 13, 2016

Ducks all in a row. Perfect road trip lined up. Boomerang trip to Tomball and back in mid-April. Speaking at The Arbor Gate (Nirvana, baby, Nirvana). Pet sitter ready; extra …

Native Son: March 24, 2016

By Steven Chamblee • March 21, 2016

Two fifty-seven in the morning…laundry is churning in the washer, coffee pot’s groaning and wheezing, dogs are coiled up on the couch like giant bagels, and, in the mirror across …

Native Son: June 2015

By Steven Chamblee • May 26, 2015

by Steven Chamblee Paradise Re-visited Twenty years ago, life presented me with the opportunity to be a part of the Longwood Graduate Program, an educational collaboration between the University of …

Native Son: May 2015

By Steven Chamblee • April 28, 2015

by Steven Chamblee I Remember… April 30, 2035 Dear Readers, Today I am feeling nostalgic for the good old days, when you could still find native wildflowers along the roadsides… …

Native Son: April 2015

By Steven Chamblee • March 25, 2015

by Steven Chamblee Discovering America in Columbus What was I thinking? About six months ago, I accepted a late-March speaking invitation in Columbus, Texas, about 70 miles west of Houston. …

Native Son: March 2015

By Steven Chamblee • February 25, 2015

by Steven Chamblee The Grip of Winter Here I sit in the midnight blue, A frozen crust covers the garden outside Under which lies the promise of spring. Blue-eyed grass …

Native Son: February 2015

By Steven Chamblee • January 28, 2015

by Steven Chamblee Alligator Juniper When I was a boy, someone told me that beavers and humans were the only animals that change their environment to serve their own needs. …

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