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Tilting at Windmills : Archie and the Chickadee with Backward Knees #11

Clayton Yonder – my boyfriend, my hero, and potentially the protector of all imperiled wildlife – did not call me ..


Tilting at Windmills : Archie: Housekeeping

There is an aspect of crisis management that is less dramatic than the urgency of dismantling an actual threat. It’s ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and the Sketch Pad

After Special Investigator Clayton Yonder of the United States Parks Service Avian Slaughter Task Force – my boyfriend – told ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie and Something in the Nature of a Powwow

After Clayton Yonder arrived at my house, I brought him into the living room to introduce him to our avian ..


Tilting at Windmills : Archie and a World of Predators

Let me tell you about Florida, the Everglades, and snakes. Specifically: Burmese pythons. I came upon this information inadvertently, when ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie, Retreat and Re-Group

I was nervous the entire time I was driving home from the MRI clinic, and every few seconds, I glanced ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie Returns to the Scene of the Crime

It had been several days since Archie and I met outside the clinic where we’d undergone our MRIs. Mine … ..


Tilting At Windmills: Archie Expresses his Dissatisfaction

It was definitely an odd scenario. I, standing in front of the fireplace with a puzzled, yet (I hope) compassionate ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie Asks for Advice

After Archie left the store that sold “Repurposed Goods,” he flew directly to my house. He’d never visited my home ..


Tilting at Windmills: Archie, the Giant Chickadee – A Dilemma

Archibald – no-last-name, no-middle-initial – the half-ounce chickadee who got sucked into an MRI machine several weeks ago and was ..


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