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It’s too soon to hang up the “Mission Accomplished” banner or take any victory laps, but this year’s garden is […]

I’ve never had a guest columnist before, but when I found this discussion of a new book by Caroline Grant

If you paste the link below into your search window, it should take you to an article I wrote about

There are lots of things that I could be blogging about over the next two weeks: the garden, the orchard,

Independence Day is here again and I’ve been reflecting, as one should on such occasions, about the meaning of it

There’s a story about a young pastor in a rural area who went to call on one of his parishioners

Was I complaining recently in this space about the difficulty of getting everything done while retired? I was, and here’s

They say everyone is famous for fifteen minutes – but do they tell you it will be in Santa Barbara?

My California daughter has just co-edited a book about the choices women make when they have hopes for a family

For years I told people that I liked The New Yorker because of the theology in the cartoons. I once