by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Apr 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, I stood in daytime dark and saw the light. Like over two hundred million other people across North America, I had the amazing opportunity to see one of nature’s rarest phenomena—a total solar eclipse. In fact, my home in Arkansas lay squarely in the...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
The bluebird box has been there for years, decades even. It’s nothing impressive to look at—just a simple cedar box mounted to a rusty T-post and sheltered under a spray of spirea and a slender pear tree. Like most things that have lived patiently through the swirl of...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Be Thou my vision… The prayer floats skyward, whispering across the short-shaved crop fields—a plea to see. Here, where the land leaps forward, my gaze is stretched for miles. O King of my heart… Here, in the wildness of the high grasslands, the horizon embraces us...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Dec 7, 2023 | Estes Park
In the crackling dusk of a Rocky Mountain evening, I have come to catch the glow. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, and I’m standing on the sidewalks of Estes Park, waiting for the wonder to begin. Tonight is clear, a blank between two snowstorms—one that whirled...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Nov 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
“Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring.” Thus declared the famous Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. She further explained her opinion with these words: “I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep....
