Parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are already in full color. Autumn is here! Hope you are enjoying the weather and everything good that comes from the changing season. 

Jan 💛🍁

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Video by Paul James Meinke

I love autumn!  

Blog background - Autumn Landscape by William Mason Brown (1828 -1898) - Public Domain - Wikimedia Commons. 

Leire’s very cool (and haunting) version of Wicked Game by Chris Isaak.

Very Interesting!

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(From MentalFloss.com) 

10 Medieval Words You Use Every Day

You probably say these words every day without realizing they were born in the Middle Ages.

  

 https://www.mentalfloss.com/language/words/medieval-words-use-every-day?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Yes! Autumn Poetry: A Collection for the Season has a new cover. It's an oil on canvas landscape painting titled, Autumn, Brandywine Valley, Pennsylvania, by American artist Bruce Crane - 1910. It's a softer image which I think fits the book a little better, and is from Wikimedia Commons. (Public Domain)

Probabilities

I tell you about

the stars and you name them

like numbers -

trigonometry I don't understand

or geometric probabilities of war.

 

The minutes move

from a day. Hours fall

like seconds

into a new paradigm shift.

 

Words spread across world history

written

the likes not seen

for centuries.

 

(c) Jan Darrow 2026

Dear Readers,

Ah! I don’t know where the time goes. Yes. I’m still here and writing! 

I wanted to let you know that After/Thought Literary let me know today that they are publishing two of my poems in their June issue. I’m thrilled! I will post the link when it’s up. (Update- sadly they closed their publication before their June issue was available. Wishing them well with their future endeavors. I have posted one of the poems, Probabilities, above.) 

I hope you’re well and enjoying the weather! 

💛 Jan