March 2025

“March is like a mischievous child. It startles, delights and vexes—all in the same day—then, suddenly, with a sunny smile, it declares total innocence.” — Peggy Toney Horton

April 2024

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” — George Orwell

October 2023

“October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.” — Keith Donohue

September 2023

“As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.” — Peggy Toney Horton

The Missing Pages – April, May, & June

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

December 2022

“December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. / December feels like blood.” — Zinaida Gippius

November 2022

“I wore the scent of weather inside / my body like a sacred love.” — Sneha Subramanian Kanta

October 2022

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” — Rainbow Rowell

September 2022

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul… but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.” — Peggy Toney Horton

August 2022 • Part III

“The grass in the back field was almost waist high, and now there was goldenrod, that late-summer gossip which comes to tattle on autumn every year. But there was no autumn in the air today; the sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.”
― Stephen King