We’ve got another Kickstarter for you to consider supporting this week! Our own Managing Editor, James D. Witmer, is coming out with a new book of stories from the Old Garden, Beside the Pond: A Big Old Garden Story! Scroll on down to click through to the announcement—and get a sneak peek! And then head right […]

Two murder-mystery-themed items made their way into my around-the-web collection this week. Your littlest ones might not be up for them, but I began reading Agatha Christie in elementary school and was no worse for the wear, so I’ll keep both in the list. A few years ago, I presented on Golden Age detective fiction […]

The trees in my neighborhood are beginning to green. I look across the street to the stand of woods on a hill and still see mostly branches, hazed over with spring color. I can still see the windows of the house on the hill behind the trees, but it won’t be many weeks before I […]

Last year, as I began working from home due to COVID, we were about to enter one of the loveliest and longest springs since I moved here to Charlotte. Rather than hurtling into summer heat by the end of March, the weather was a gift of warm-but-not-hot days and cool nights. I opened the windows, […]

We are turning the corner of March, going from lion to lamb. In my town, today’s weather was practically bi-polar, with lion-like thunderstorms and tornadoes interspersed with bright sunshine and singing birds. I was reminded of the Andrew Peterson lyric, “The world was good, the world is fallen, the world will be redeemed.”  Around the […]