Whenever we enter a fictional forest – whether in a film, a novel or a fairy tale – we know we’re bound for a story of adventure, possibly of danger, magic or transformation. Why is the forest such an evocative place in our stories? What does it stand for? And what does the imagined forest…
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Two friends, Margaret Ables, co-host of the podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood, and Sonia Fujimori, who coordinated the edible garden at our children’s elementary school, join me in conversation with Lorie Hammond, author of the new book Growing Whole Children in the Garden. In fact, Lorie is a friend as…
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I’ve been a bit rock-obsessed lately. We all have ways we’ve been keeping ourselves sane during the pandemic. For me, it’s my daily hike with my dog. Every morning, after I’ve sorted out the kids, I drive ten minutes to a nature preserve where Coco can run free, and I get to commune with the…
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Two years ago, I took a little dive into the history of the Christmas tree. It seemed appropriate to revisit Christmas trees past this year, as we settle in for an unusually sheltered holiday season and people are eagerly buying up Christmas trees to bring some light into their lives. I reached out to Judith…
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