Twitter and FaceBook are awash with all the strange behaviors this stay-at-home reality is visiting upon us. A good one, it seems to me, is the urge to reach out to people you haven’t talked to in a while. I’m soothed by stories that my best friend from high school (still one of the absolutely…
Read MorePeople are really nostalgic for the Middle Ages, which would suggest they are nostaligc for a pre-Industrial time (it helps if you have magic, though). Is every movie a reflection on the climate crisis now? The nice thing about tackling the climate/ environmental crisis in a movie is that it’s solved after about two hours….
Read MoreFiction was never really my thing, which isn’t to say I don’t enjoy reading novels, but I was always a bit suspicious of it. I was more drawn to poetry’s bisecting truths. My husband, who’s written two novels, has tired of narrative in his middle age. He feels like he knows the outcomes all too…
Read MoreI asked Carolyn Summers, a landscape designer and native plant expert, what she thought could be done to address what many botanical gardens are calling “plant blindness” and which I likened to a form of illiteracy. This ignorance about plants is relatively new, she pointed out. Take a look at an old Boy Scout manual,…
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