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For a very long time now, decades really, I have been working on an idea for a gardening book called “The Garden in the Carols", all about t

During this pandemic I have been chipping away indoor and out at my home projects list, comfortingly it turns out, much as I have been doing

Will the roses bloom where she lies sleeping Will the flowers shed their petals there Will the dewdrops fall upon the roses Where my darling

Do you have a power pole in your garden? I do. And, for the last 19 years I have successfully gardened around mine. I say successfully becau

One of the unexpected outcomes of the Covid-19 quarantine is the remarkable number of pets that have been rescued from shelters worldwide. M

While the rest of the world learned to make sourdough bread with little or no ingredients or started a victory garden with a clay pot that t

I am never without my smartphone because it is how I communicate with my invalid mother who lives with me. She texts me when she needs somet

I had a phone conversation last week with my cousin, the owner/operator of Sunshine Gardens in Encinitas about his invalid wife and my inval

In July and August of 2004, December of '07 and June and July of '08 I traveled to Ireland for weeks at a time each trip, specifically to st

My parents were born in and I grew up to the age of 11 in Sierra Madre, California, a tiny, idyllic burg in Los Angeles County, the home of