Tag: columns

I don’t grow corn in my small, shady garden, so I’m not sure how tall they’d be by now if I planted on May...

Sometimes you just have to turn to the man for guidance, and in this case, Shakespeare states it perfectly in “Macbeth”: Double, double toil and...

Just when I was in a hurry, I made the mistake of choosing the grocery cart with the “wonky” wheel. Sometime ago, CNN did...

Recently we were visited by hundreds of butterflies. I had over 20 drinking from the small puddle near my front door. One made it...

“171,000 people experience homelessness daily. California is home to… 30% of the nation’s homeless population, and half the nation’s unsheltered population.” —Kushel, Moore, et...

After a lovely, mild spring, summer weather arrived with a vengeance. My poor plants were thinking they lived in England and then were rudely...

Last month, I wrote about the fast fashion industry. Unfortunately, typos happen, but one typo can change the context of an entire story and...

Hand pies are such an ingenious way to create an individual pie without the problems of serving and the opportunity of various fillings. These...

The assignment: create a cutting garden. For a designer this is the best kind of request. Until about 100 years ago, one of the...

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates I am an evangelist for financial life planning! I preach it, practice it and donate it to...