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- Bystander training
An incident on a train in Germany points to how things have changed there.
- What about when he goes to college?
Before my son, Tim, came along, there was Char, my black Labrador.
- Why I’m not that girl in the book
I once longed to be a storybook heroine. Today I aspire to joy.
- The amazing race
It demands stamina, agility, quick thinking, grace – but the payoff is huge.
- Wireless communication of a different sort
Out of necessity, my 21st-century teen tries his hand at an antique medium.
- There are birds, and then there’s Noodle
My new project is to get to know my garden’s avian regulars as individuals.
- I sing in praise of puttering
To putter is to improve the things at hand the way one cannot with the world at large.
- Making a MacGyver in Costa Rica
The 1980s TV action hero lives on – as a metaphor for creative adaptation.
- I am taught by towels
How have I learned Scottish phrases? Let’s say I soak up knowledge.
- Compassion keeps knocking
Our front door seems far too accessible in this African city.
- Tossing what the clutter elves snuck in
I felt like Daniel Boone taming a vast wilderness – my overstuffed basement.
- Finding the everyday in the exotic
To travel is to encounter the unfamiliar and strange. But not always.
- Notes to my garden denizens
Feeding birds, planting asparagus – even sleeping at night – are hardly routine.
- Setting a course for solo adventure
I have long loved to travel in a way that gives some of my friends pause.
- How ‘holy days’ became vacation
The etymology of holiday is easy to see, coming from 'holy day,' a day of particular religious significance, often celebrating the life of a saint, during which no work was to be done.
- What we know about blackberries
That galloping sound? The rising darkness? Look out! Here they come!
- The book next to the one I was looking for
I never mastered the art of efficient library research. But I found great stuff.
- Puppy love, it’s not
A Labrador retriever provides a couple with a lesson in listening and love.
- Our rocky road to rhododendrons
Any way you looked at it, Plaza Lake meant adventure.
- Of time, tide, and graduation
Mastery can be the work of one moment, or the task of many.