As a kid, I loved when my parents hosted dinner parties. My mother set the table with wedding china and baked flaky ham and cheese pinwheels as appetizers. I helped with the salad spinner. Then, I got to watch TV upstairs when the guests arrived and blow out the candles when they left. My bedtime …
The day the house burned began the way most things do, without anyone knowing it was the beginning. “It’s the little fires, the domestic losses, that come out of nowhere.” With larger natural disasters, if one is lucky, there is some fair warning. Weather reports, sirens, signs in the sky. It’s the little fires, the …
In a faceoff between nature and a lawn, nature wins every time. Maintaining a lawn is an uphill battle, involving thousands of gallons of water, herbicides, and lawnmowers. Zoom out beyond your yard to the environment beyond, and headlines are hard to keep up with. Droughts rack the United States yearly, bee populations shrink, and soil quality …
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