Sometimes we Ranters have other things to say – maybe about life – because we don’t JUST garden, ya know.
Autumn is a sad yet beautiful season in my garden. It brackets the anniversaries of my son’s life: his birth in late fall and his death at age 18 at [...]
John Steinbeck crossed the country with Charley in 1960. I rode to Louisville last month, from Pennsylvania, with Rufus. Steinbeck, who wrote Travels with Charley, made the road trip with [...]
Bears loomed large last month in Alaska, but there was more danger lurking for a scrapulation.* Close quarters and too much family togetherness always make for a menacing vacation threat. [...]
There is the young boy, barefoot in the garden, gamely holding a long hoe, even if it is much too big for him. Who could have imagined? Did a young [...]
St. Phillips Episcopal Church A few years ago, the father of a friend lay near death, and there were the usual matters to clean up before the end. [...]
Thousands of red tulips have been planted in the Churchill Downs paddock and winner’s circle for this year’s Kentucky Derby. They were shipped from Holland months ago. Nearly 500 red [...]
Mac Reid, Gene Hamm, Tay Breene, and Rose Bush Too many times over the decades, even knowing that it won’t end well, I have herded party captives into [...]
In roaming my new neighborhood, one of my favorite stops is our Community Center, built in a simplified Art Deco style with five bas relief sculptures along its front facade. [...]
I've had Henry, a big handsome alpha dog, for the last two years. People say he's badly trained. I'm not sure. Like the other members of my household, Henry definitely [...]
Aside from the Mutiny on the Bounty, where the disgruntled crew tossed breadfruit overboard, I’ve never heard such a High Seas Adventure as the one I learned last month in [...]
It's a fair bet that I own my last Victorian house. Never again. In future, I intend to suffer only over pieces of architecture worth suffering over. Some people are [...]
I'm in the middle of a three-week vacation in New York. It was supposed to be a two-week vacation, planned long ago when I made it known that the only [...]
