Baseball season begins today, and even though it’s not my favorite sport, the game of baseball has many good things going for it, despite the looong games and the even looonger season that won’t end until October. Baseball humor (yes, it’s…

A large shelf in the school library was full of dusty yellow boxes, their tops stamped with the once ubiquitous brand name Kodak. Hundreds of photographic slides were inside, a hodge-podge of carefully labeled photos of class parties, field trips, and…

I could hardly wait to walk into the school room that day, the last day of second grade, my small hands clutching a cellophane wrapped corsage for my teacher.  Would she remember?  Would she have it on? Mrs. Porter stepped from…

The garden stores are bursting with plants—and customers.  Count me among the people who are answering the “call of the wild”…flowers, that is.  The soil around my house is not extremely plant-friendly, and along with the dozens of deer who graze…