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What do the neighbors think of my front-yard native planting now? Last summer, the purple anise hyssop burst with fuzzy flower spikes for months, luring
It’s time once again to welcome guest blogger and advice columnist Pious Petunia, offering timely wisdom and incisive comment on the tiniest of modern ailments.
There is “no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us
Spring semester begins next week for me, and I’m looking forward to the two courses I’ll be teaching: creative nonfiction and environmental literature. I have
These candlelit evenings, ancient hope glimmers like a gift,gleams for a moment, then falters, slips to nothingin the circling of the year, our loves still
I went to the public library downtown this week to pick up a book I had on hold, and while I was there, I noticed
This Advent, the Revised Common Lectionary shifts from the Year A sequence to the Year B sequence. Lucky us—this means the first passage we will
They will answer, “Lord, when did we see you fleeing your home because of flooding or drought or wildfire, or suffering from heat exhaustion, or
My English composition students have been revising their first, low-impact, warm-up essay assignment this week. We’re mostly working on organization and sentence style at this
