We all get our small pleasures in life: the little things we enjoy simply because we enjoy them. For me, one of them is watching the birds outside my large sliding glass doors…

I have a most-beautiful view from where I live. I look out over Lake Elkhorn in Columbia, Maryland. (Well, I see the lake more fully when trees have lost their summer green, as they…

The whole pork taboo thing. Not that I've delved into it and its origins, so much. More that I just never really saw much logic in the explanations given and meant to deny…

We can pretend we're all modern and sh*t. We can wall up in our houses, our structures, our vehicles. We can turn the heat on when it's cold and the AC on when…

I was out of town myself, grateful for just pitter patter rain while camping at a festival, and I missed the heavy rainfall that caused the second "thousand-year flood" in two years down…

I've come to understand I'm a seasonal person, and I have a seasonal personality. Today, as I attempt to keep at bay a fatigue that's making me want to buckle at the knees, I…

I love this time of year. I love watching the Earth — and all her pieces — wake up, emerge. I love seeing that which was dead, transformed to become something anew. A…

I was encouraged a few years back to explore foraging … and I love it. Less interested in that which grows deep in forests and very interested in that which grows in meadows…

I’m a big fan of wild foraging, wild edibles and — especially through the eyes of my mostly suburban existence — free food in my yard and along the pathways where I walk.…

Were people to truly understand that tens if not hundreds or thousands of pounds of food were being wasted each year in communities across the nation, there would probably be some sort of…

I’m a big fan of wild foraging, wild edibles and — especially through the eyes of my mostly suburban existence — free food in my yard and along the pathways where I walk.…