Concrete Rose wins the Edgewood Stakes at Churchill Downs. Churchill Downs was packed for two days last Derby weekend. On Friday, instead of slurping sugary mint juleps and [...]
Rose and I had an idea for a family homecoming last month. We hosted our kids for a week on the spring train to Serendipity. Our son lives with his [...]
Lillian Russell. Photo credit: Pittsburgh City Paper Feathers might not have been ruffled if actress Lillian Russell, and other early 20thcentury fashonistas, had not sashayed around in hats [...]
Dear Kim, I need your help. I am impressed that a reality television star, like you, with star status as big as the President’s (I mean HUGE), can walk into [...]
Our grown children were scattered hither and yon this Christmas, so Rose and I downsized Yuletide with a raggedy Eastern red cedar, instead of a sculpted Fraser fir. Meanwhile, I stayed [...]
Sower with Setting Sun “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” Vincent Van Gogh I doubt, at my age, I will be sowing too many wild oats. [...]
Mary Vaananen When I retired from Jelitto Perennial Seeds at the end of last year, my desk was neither memorialized nor mothballed. Gone, however, are old coffee cups, [...]
John Prine. Photo: Oh Boy Records. The singer-songwriter John Prine doesn’t have anything to do with the hungry spotted lanternfly, but bear with me. Spotted lanternfly is not [...]
I have a history of occasional, informal, peer-reviewed, THC trials of psychoactive marijuana. The trial was simple: I smoked marijuana with friends. I try to imagine I was judged, [...]
I may have come across the future of American farming. Mind you, what I found was small-scale farming, but if farming and rural communities are to survive, it may come [...]
Edith Eddleman and the Jekyll Border at the J.C. Raulston Arboretum. I arrived in Raleigh a few days before last week’s Perennial Plant Association (PPA) Symposium. I checked [...]
A field of Russian phloxes. Christian Kress, Sarastro-Stauden photo. Just off our front porch, a Phlox of sentimental interest didn’t flinch during heavy storms a week and a [...]
