Garden Memories By Lucy E.M. Black We are now living in our third house, having moved from our starter home to a sprawling farmhouse and now finally to this one, a downsized version closer to services, where we intend to grow older and creakier. In each of these houses, I pl... Read more
“The Book Club” and Me by Donna Scrafano Since I have been sheltering-in, so I’ve been watching a lot of movies. Mostly fun movies. Some movies I’ve seen before. One particular movie I’ve chosen to watch, and I’ve seen several times, is “The Book Club.” I had forgotten just ... Read more
Plagues and Problems: Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Years by Stu O’Connor Memento Mori (“Remember, you must die”). The awareness of inevitable death has been a concern of philosophers since at least Socrates. And not just death’s inevitability but its potential sudden... Read more
How COVID-19 Changes Our Perspective by Stan Corey April 22, 2020 was the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, and it offered a very different scenario than any prior Earth Day since the original one was held in 1970. There have been a number of stories about how, in the very ... Read more
Eye In the Sky Book Review by Jude Joseph Lovell I’ve been running into the English crime novelist Kate Atkinson’s books for years. More than one reader has recommended her work to me, and I’ve seen her titles appear many times on various “Best of the Year” lists for fiction... Read more
Arbor Day: Our Future By J’Nel Wright Arbor Day this year is on April 24. As one of only two major holidays that celebrate nature and the environment (the other one is Earth Day, which will occur two days earlier, on April 22), Arbor Day has varied in popularity since its in... Read more
