The Scarlet Tanager The Bluebird The Baltimore Oriole When I was a small child, before I could read, my parents bought ...

Preparing chicken and cauliflower for the first barbecue of the season. The cauliflower is cut into "steaks." It's also th...

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." This quote, attributed to the ...

You can still find Nicole Hollander’s older books on amazon.com. The titles seem very appropriate for the current lock-down drag-o...

The Girl Who Married a Ghost  (published 1978) The Girl Who Married a Ghost and other tales from The North American Indian by Edward S...

This week Len has done a major number of bakes! Our new Poilâne cookbook offered this unusual recipe for pepper bread. The French name fo...

A worker at a coffee processing plant owned by a farmers' cooperative organization in Costa Rica. We visited this plant last winter....

The novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez was recommended a few months ago on a list of books by Mexican-Ameri...

Embellished stop sign with tag: "BIRDS AREN'T REAL." Down the road from the embellished stop sign, we searched for pipit...

We finally have a sign acknowledging the heroism of essential workers in our society. Sign installed on our lawn. Heroism is a c...

"I wonder where memories go. In fact a memory really can’t be lost. All it can do is wilt, gently wither, go bad, fade in tender agony...

A Kirtland's warbler is a rare sighting in Washtenaw County where we live. They breed only in a very small territory in northern...