As we remerge from another winter and two years of the pandemic, I see lichen everywhere, fairly glowing at me. Ancient life form, it...

Oh, bloodroot, you are us in spring of 2020, sheltering ourselves in cloudy weather, or dark moments -- which we seem to have more often...

Barns were a place of refuge for me in childhood. They were filled with the warmth of huge mammals constantly chewing, the comfort of...

Back in college, taking care of babies was like eating candy. They were scrumptious, smooth and rounded like little loaves of bread. I...

1/23/20 Last night, I lit a Yahrzeit candle for my grandmother, Clara Eckel Stone, and my husband and I said the prayers for her. She...