20 years ago this month, my dad asked me to leave the family nest. I was 16, I was full of fire and ambition and I had a plan.
I didn’t really know what I was going to do, exactly. But my plan was to be wildly successful, have a brilliant career, travel the world and [...]
I love sunflowers and have been planting them in my garden ever since we moved to the mountains 5 years ago. A neighbor kindly gave me some seeds of a perennial variety and I was anxious to see how they would turn out. I am still completely amazed that one tiny seed can produce so much [...]
I’ve been avoiding the news as much as possible. I find it impossible to watch the death and destruction in Haïti and then see an ad for a luxury car or something. I was speaking to my mother the other night and she said that my she and my father are overwhelmed with grief and [...]