July is here, that glorious month of summer. In May we pulled away from winter’s hold to watch a new season awaken. June brought a foretaste of […]

“Twilight drops her curtain down and pins it with a star.” Lucy M. Montgomery If Shakespeare’s “darling buds of May” are a sweet suggestion of summer, June roses […]

“People assume happiness stems from collecting things outside yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside yourself” — Dalai Lama Over the years I’ve collected […]

By Irene Marinelli “Spring drew on … and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night […]

Who loves the rain and loves his home, And looks on life with quiet eyes, Him will I follow through the storm, And at his hearth-side keep […]

The concept of personal space has been studied for decades, with interesting results. Apparently all humans have a “second skin,” a personal space that should not be […]

We’ve been home from Jekyll Island for several weeks. We brought some special things back from the southland — sea shells, pictures, some small garden statues. Pierre […]