While my tea steeped on a recent morning, I looked out the kitchen window at a
blue sky, streaked with white ribbons of clouds. Our neighbors were in their
front
If I could find a way to prevent my homegrown pumpkins from mushing up, I’d display them on our front porch for the next six months, wearing turkey feathers at
I eased into a new year with a weekly planner, using colored inks and stickers
to mark holidays and birthdays, and transferring the reminders I’d scribbled on
sticky notes for
I was sitting in my reading chair with Benjamin BadKitten recently and realized
that the slogan on my favorite T-shirt had become a snapshot of my life. “She
believed she
I received a thoughtful email recently from a lifelong gardener who wrote that
she loves “how it feels to be a part of the web of life: the plants, the
Last week I looked out our kitchen window and saw a woman using her cell phone
to take pictures in our side yard. When I realized she was photographing my
My homegrown pumpkins drew smiles on Halloween, when 175 trick-or-treaters
walked through cold rain for individual bags of candy and a welcome from the
jack-lanterns glowing on our porch. The
Earlier this week, I sat at our kitchen table and began a familiar and comforting ritual: a mug of hot tea in easy reach and a 2023 weekly planner, ready
Maybe not all fruits and vegetables have human personalities, but mine do. Like many other animal lovers, I’ve imposed human traits on the dogs and cats who joined our family
The air turned crisp this week and, for the first time all summer, I layered a light jacket over a henley top for my morning walk with Duffy. Our wavy-coated
During a winterlong hiatus away from my desk, I signed up for aerobic workouts with a personal trainer. Five months later, I’m in great shape for gardening season, except for