KB Ballentine Is Winner Of February Writing Contest By Chattanooga Writers Guild Monday, March 15, 2021
KB Ballentine
KB Ballentine with her poem March was the winner of the February writing contest by the Chattanooga Writers Guild. The theme was Hope, and the judge was Finn Bille.
There were seven entries.
Edge of the Echo is scheduled to launch Ms. Ballentine’s seventh collection in the Spring of 2021 with Iris Press. Her earlier books can be found on Blue Light Press, Middle Creek Publishing and Celtic Cat Publishing. She is published in Crab Orchard Review, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, and other fine presses. Her work also appears in anthologies, including In Plein Air (2017) and Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace (2017).
This is the forty-eighth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for future articles with outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
Wintertime can be an excellent time to stargaze because cool air is usually less humid and less turbulent than warm air. Cool, dry conditions are a key to seeing the most stars possible with the naked eye. The total number of stars that can be seen with the naked eye is 9,095, according to the Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Edition. This number includes both hemispheres of our planet, so at any one time or place, only about half of these are visible. A y
This is the forty-sixth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for future articles with outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
We are in a period celebrated by the Gaelic calendar as Imbolg (or Imbolc) a word that means “in the belly” and refers to the time when the “new Sun,” having been conceived at Winter Solstice, is gestating but nearing its time of birth in Spring. I find this time of year to be especially suited to looking for early signs of change that denote the coming of warmer weather and springtime. One of these signs in Beulah’s Pueblo Mountain Park is “mud s
Nature s Classroom: Saving what we love, part four: Rhythm and movement
David Anthony Martin
This is the thirty-ninth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for future articles with outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate-covid-19-pandemic-relief/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
Part One of this Saving What We Love series spoke to the importance of the frontal lobe’s development in childhood and its role in memory and reward, planning and drive, and decision making and self-discipline, and it focused on mirror neurons as one of the ways to create those vital connections. Part Two focused on the benefits of intera
This is the thirty-eighth in a series of articles from the staff of the Nature & Wildlife Discovery Center that will provide resources, ideas, and suggestions for families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for future articles with outdoor activity ideas for students and families. The public can help the nonprofit NWDC get through this challenging time by making a donation at https://hikeandlearn.org/donate-covid-19-pandemic-relief/. Join NWDC for guided hikes and other exciting nature programs listed here: https://hikeandlearn.org/programs-and-events/.
Part one of this Saving What We Love series spoke to the importance of the frontal lobe’s development in childhood and its role in memory and reward, planning and drive, and decision-making and self-discipline, and it focused on mirror neurons as one of the ways to create those vital connections. Part Two focused on the ways that interactive play benefits the frontal lobe’s development.