Imagine being the first person to look through a handmade microscope at a slide of water and seeing creatures moving, eating, reproducing. This is exactly what happened in the 1670s to the Dutch scientist, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek. He saw an invisible …
I love my herb bed. Of all the parts of my gardens, I admit to being very partial to my humble herbs. The flowerbeds give me such beauty. But the herbs are both beautiful and practical; I use them all the time. Herbs are easy to grow because most …
Family stories. I think of them as the delicate threads that weave a family together. They can caution us from wrong actions, show us the constancy of love, or, by means of humorous anecdote, help us realize our ancestors weren’t always old. Perhaps …
