A great horned owl is raising its chicks in this tree in a local park; Len kept his distance from the other birders. We are staying awa...

We are watching the new season of Ugly Delicious with David Chang, which was released by Netflix last week. In the first episode, he do...

St. Patrick's Day 2009 in a Mexican restaurant in San Diego. We were surprised to find an Irish celebration in front of a Mexican mura...

Across the country this weekend grocery stores and big-box stores are running out of vegetables, frozen foods, pasta, canned goods, and brea...

"Fidelma mentally shut her ears to the scratchy voice of the woman, and ate mechanically of the cereal and fruit placed before her....

Having a reliable supply of food on hand has become a necessity for large numbers of people throughout the world in the past week or so. My ...

Source: CDC website. According to this map from the CDC, updated today, March 10, the state where I live, Michigan, has not reported any...

The Man in the Red Coat (published November, 2019) Julian Barnes's recent book The Man in the Red Coat  is very puzzling. When I bou...

Plants are pushing up through the ice on the little brook that runs through the University of Michigan Arboretum. Copyright © 20...

...if only it were locally grown. But it traveled from California to Trader Joe’s.

As we walked by the river on Wednesday, we heard the throaty trills of male red winged blackbirds, just returned from somewhere further s...

Harold McGee's book The Curious Cook was published in 1992. That didn't stop me from learning all kinds of interesting new things...