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Christmas Treasure
One November, a red lumpy sphere mysteriously appeared on the cold marble table. There it sat for days on end—admired, silent, proud, waiting. At night it reflected light from the …
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Gardening Barbie
Buying Christmas presents for my young relatives is always a struggle. I only see these kids once every few years when I go back home to Texas. I can hardly …
Find Your Own Gardening Buddy
My garden is my sanctuary. It’s where I go if I want some peace and quiet in my day. Especially now that I have a four-year old daughter, finding a …
Weeding the Garden Can Be Meditative
I love a funny story like everyone else, but so many of the stories submitted to us are about someone moving through trauma or grief with their garden by their …
Christmas Coffee Plant
At the middle school where my wife, Carole, and I teach, we have a small coffee room—with four coffee pots. Two perk regular coffee, one holds decaffeinated, and one has …
My New Year’s Garden
As we grow older, New Year’s Resolutions are apt to become more important to us. The accumulating years begin to press down upon us, bringing acute awareness of our mortality. …
It’s the Little Things
Sometimes it’s the little things. All right, a lot of the time it is the little things … This morning, I was in the bathroom trying to get my seven-year-old …
The Holiday Newsletter
Every winter, certain jet-setter friends of ours enclose a holiday newsletter in their Christmas card. This year’s concluded: "Although free time is pretty hard to come by since Christine’s promotion, …
The Gift of a Wreath
For their Christmas holiday project, Cassie’s California Blue Bird troop planned to visit a nursing home. “Folks in nursing homes are often too old or too sick to be home …
12 Poinsettias of Christmas Cartoon
On the first day of Christmas my neighbor gave to me a poinsettia! How lovely! On the second day of Christmas my best friend gave to me a poinsettia! Golly …
