Dirty Thoughts: A Gardening Life

Amber is not a color that we plant in the garden. Amber is the color that becomes the garden, for November (in these parts, never October)...

Twenty-nine degrees this morning brought with it the second appreciable frost of the season--but not a frost frigid enough to destroy many o...

Subduction is an odd word. It sounds like the bastard child of abduction and seduction .   But it is not. In fact, it is the opposite...

I know someone who professes to be "delicate." For instance, Viet (oops! Apparently very little is sacred in this blog, dare w...

If autumn is the long season, then it also remains positioned on the precipice of disaster: and this we must not forget. At this time of...

Hobbes wrote of the Long Parliament (in Behemoth ). Vita Sackville-West and her husband, the diplomat Harold Nicolson, once lived at Lon...

New Yorkers are a curious, fickle, unpredictable lot. One never quite knows where they might stand on any particular issue, in part because...