A Life Interrupted

I am beginning to wonder if I have an unhealthy relationship with my vegetable garden.   Last year, I was seduced by a zucchini...

Any novice gardener can tell you. Watch your zucchini plants closely. Give it any private time at all you will be harvesting something the...

Earth Day 2018:   The Day I surrendered Caspian  It is a heart-breaking thing to give up your dog, even if he really wasn’t your do...

I did something radical this weekend. Quietly radical. I canceled my DirecTV account.  Now it's not that DirecTV did anything to me ...

I'm a human "doing", not a human "being". Everyone's got it—or so they claim. That ability to stand in a crowd...

Last spring,   just after moving to Horn Lake, Mississippi, I met Della on the street. Sometimes she was riding her bicycle.  More often sh...

There is a story recounted in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers about the city of Roseta, Pennsylvania, not far from Bangor or Nazareth. Ital...