Even while the last blooms of summer fade and the trees shed their leaves, there’s still much to enjoy in the autumn garden. I went out this morning with my camera to save its late-season …
Autumn in My Garden
Home Life
Fall is coming (thank goodness)
Maybe if I lived closer to a nice beach, I’d enjoy August more, but I don’t, so as it is, August is one of my least favorite months. It’s usually so hot and dry here …
A K-pop Primer For Parents
Thanks to the enormous global success of the Netflix animated film Kpop Demon Hunters, Korean pop music, or K-pop, is experiencing a revival of interest among tween and teen audiences. My daughter was into K-pop …
Some morning gardening in mid-July
I just returned a few days ago from almost three weeks out of town. It feels like we travel somewhere in early or mid-July more years than not. I love travel, but it’s a somewhat …
An Evening In My Garden
As I mentioned the other day, one of my goals in the garden this year is to do a better job of edging one of the flower beds in my side garden. I created it …
My Favorite Borscht Recipe
I studied Russian in college. During my second year, my professor, who was Ukrainian, invited the class over to his house to celebrate the end of the semester with borscht and kotleti. Since then, I’ve …
Four Recipes I Recently Added To My Repertoire
Like most home cooks with a family to feed, I’m always on the lookout for easy, healthy, and tasty recipes to try. We are big fans of 1) roasted veggies and 2) soup in my …
Gardening as Self-Care
One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to work more in my garden. I had several reasons for this, some of them purely practical. I was traveling for work for most of April …