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Experience is a great teacher
One day years ago in New York City, I passed a small church on the way to work. It was a little stone church, tucked in between more modern, storied b...
An inner gardener after all
I have never been a gardener.This makes me feel like a misfit in my family. My mother is a wonderful gardener. She had an enormous vegetable garden in...
Just another vacation tale
Last year it was hornets and bears. In the past it has been really sick kids, keys locked in the car, or prescription glasses lost in the ocean —...
The rhythms of our lives
There are 14 steps leading to the top floor of my house, where the bedchambers are located, and 13 down from the main floor to the man cave. I know th...
Changing your perspective
“A place for everything, and everything in its place” has been my motto for most of my life.I’m not one of those guys who loses his ...
A hinge point in history?
Coronavirus mutations are outflanking us, mutating through the bodies of unvaccinated people, sending us into the never-ending narrative of a forever ...
Return of the The Treat Lady?
The dogs are missing me.My husband, Peter, predicted this after we moved. “All the dogs will miss you!” he said. “They are going to ...
The value of changing your perspective
“A place for everything, and everything in its place” has been my motto for most of my life.I’m not one of those guys who loses his ...
What on earth is going on?
Like most people, I check the weather every morning before beginning my day. Rain, snow, heat, humidity. Whatever is coming that day, I want to know b...
The seasons of our lives
I have a 95 year-old father-in-law — we call him “Pop” — who until recently lived with my wife and me. He was cloistered in ou...
