It is late October and the season is turning. The morning chill is not the surface cool of fog, the chill you feel in…
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Patricia Contaxis
Patricia Contaxis’ work has appeared in The Pluralist, San Antonio Review, Rivanna Review, and Notes From The Seashore. Retired after more than thirty years as a marriage and family therapist, she now spends her time on Trail Patrol with the National Park Service, and as a Hawkwatcher for the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory. She also enjoys playing mandolin and fiddle with her band, and wandering the coastal hills with her family, their very good boy, and a pair of 8x42 field glasses.