meet travis cox, age 17, ‘the garden scout’
YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES: You open your email and have to weed out the invasive solicitations and spam first. [read more…]
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birdnote q&a: nest boxes 101, or which birdhouse?
EVER WONDER ABOUT nest boxes–about which design is best, or where you should place them in the garden to attract [read more…]
giveaway: 'tiny buddha,' a q&a with lori deschene
LORI DESCHENE, AKA TINY BUDDHA, doesn’t claim to be anybody’s guru, and it was her lack of pretense and big [read more…]
inspiration: philippe petit's 1974 high-wire act
IAM REMINDED AT THIS ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 of something else: of Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire act that temporarily connected the [read more…]
september 11, the day jack rescued me
I WAS GOING TO SKIP ANY MENTION of 9/11, not because it’s not on my mind, but it’s tricky: Today [read more…]
giveaway: 'the memoir project' as a guide to life
HAVING DECIDED TO WRITE MEMOIR FOR A LIVING has its perils. For me, it has some extra-prickly ones, since my [read more…]
doodle by andre: ousted from the house(ted)
IMUST GO TO MY ROOM, WITHOUT SUPPER OR FURTHER DELAY. Right now—to my room. Which apparently is no longer in [read more…]
reinventing yourself: a podcast with regina brett
REGINA BRETT IS MANY THINGS: a breast-cancer survivor; a onetime single parent; one of 11 kids who shared a difficult [read more…]
book giveaway: the soaring work of brad kessler
IAM AFRAID OF FLYING, BUT RIGHT AT HOME WITH BIRDS. So Brad Kessler’s 2006 novel “Birds in Fall,” a story [read more…]
musical inspiration: on staying 'too long at the fair'
THOUGH A TAD EMBARRASSING TO SAY SO, song lyrics, like other poetry, get pasted up on the fridge or bulletin [read more…]
