The waist-high bookshelves that line the reading room at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art are crammed with stories that span a lifetime. When a child tugs loose one of the colorful spines and brings it back to her grandmother to read, there’s no telling what treasure she’ll hand her. Maybe it’s a […]
A beautiful tree in Sedona AZ that almost seems to be opening its branches to welcome you.
Here is my dog, Zeke, keeping sentinel over our neighborhood, in the shadow of the American Flag.
SLIDE SHOW: Quebec City Crossing international borders still gives me a tiny mysterious knot in the pit of my stomach. I’m about to go somewhere else, somewhere foreign, and it’s defined–there’s a literal line around it. Like right now, for instance, driving into the twilight toward the border, moon turned up like a chalice. Low […]
Touro Synagogue, the oldest temple in America, is a Newport, Rhode Island treasure.
I drove out on snowy spring days or in the dark evenings of early summer, to Cornwall and Salisbury and New Haven and Shoreham and Lincoln. I took off my boots in the houses of strangers and asked that they trust this place I might create, which I did not know how to create. I […]
Read more: House for Sale: Affordable Martha’s Vineyard On Martha’s Vineyard a garden, a clam rake, and a fishing pole will provide you with a lot of exciting ingredients for your summer meals. But for those without a green thumb, or a way with the rod and reel, fish markets and some 30 farms offer […]
A cool mist and a milky, overcast sky mercifully keep the sun off the backs of the blueberry rakers on the desolate barrens north of Columbia Falls, in Maine’s coastal Washington County. Close to 100 rakers, stooped and sweaty, work their way across the vast open landscape, littered with pickup trucks and brightly colored plastic […]