Sue Brannan Walker was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame this year, and I had the pleasure of presenting her work to an OLLI at UA class on the Hall of Fame writers this week. It seemed natural then, for the Mid-Week Poetry Break, to do a poem she wrote about another accomplished Alabamian, E. O. Wilson, "The Nature of Dreams: The Making of a Naturalist," from the anthology she did as a Poet Laureate project, co-edited with J. William Chambers, "Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology o

Yesterday, I took BoCo Wild Writers up to the historic little Roosa Cabin just below Wood’s Quarry. We enjoyed poking around inside the cabin and imagining what it would be like to live there, then had a writing exercise. I wish we there had been groups like this when I was a teen. | Naturalist Dave Sutherland