I have never thought so much about chickens

Who knew it was so fun making altered books? This is my second, a pecked-up copy of The Mating and Breeding of Poultry, which will join the chiyogami chicks and eggs for the First Unitarian show that opens Sunday. My other altered book is Religious History.

One thing that amazes me is how tough books are. Tucked and folded between covers, paper's not as perishable as it seems—yet another way that books stand the test of time.