March, 2015 Is it Spring yet?

March 7, 2015 Is it Spring yet?
I’m back in Northwest Florida where Spring is dancing with Winter. The red buds are beginning to bloom, and the azaleas are considering it. The lawn grass hasn’t gotten into the green yet but will soon. Mother Nature hasn’t made up her mind; it’s warm then cold (temperatures changing from the 70’s to the 40’s and then back again); wet/dry (relative terms but it knows how to rain here, unlike Arizona and New Mexico); days may be windy or calm (winds labeled here as “high” are called “breezy” in the desert.)
On March 6, I was at the Author’s Event at Page and Palette, an Independent Book Store in Fairhope, Alabama, in conjunction with Fairhope’s 1st Friday Art Walk. I love independent book stores, and Page & Palette is a reason why. It was a delight to talk with friends – old and new. Plus there was free wine 😉
I speak at the Unitarian Church of Mobile on April 12 and am part of a three-person panel presenting a day and half class at the Advanced Judicial College in Orlando in June. Our class is Law & Literature – law, justice, and morality; the class will be all judges, so there is great potential for divergent conversations there.