April 30th, 2012 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, General, Health, Politics, Popular Culture, Society at Large, the world and Mother Nature
The New York Times sponsored a contest: “Defending your Dinner: An Open Contest for Hungry Ethicists.” I’m a sucker for contests, raffles and such, even though I never win. This effort met with predictable results. Because I was curious about when...
April 14th, 2012 | Gardens and Gardening, General, Memory, Time Passes
Our dogwood has finally bloomed. She withstood the travails of flood, drought and blizzard, and constant cropping by deer, and this spring she blossomed, like some insecure girl crossing that seemingly impassable divide between challenged childhood and blessed...
April 3rd, 2012 | Education, Gardens and Gardening
When we signed on the dotted line and acquired the key to our new home in 2005—a new house in a new development—the rock-studded clay and steep slopes of our lot offered a tabula rasa. The woods beyond, a non-tidal wetland protected by the state Department of Natural...
