Month: December 2022

And now, as the year draws to a close, I think it’s only fair that I give my father, whose birthday, December 29, is today, the same consideration that I did for my mother on her birthday back in August of this year. Unlike hers, her one hundredth, it is not a milestone birthday...

The ground has started to freeze up, a little, in our current cold snap. It scarcely did at all last winter, cold days repeatedly interspersing with mild ones. And it’s early now, I think, for the hard ground of winter, compared to my childhood days in this city, and the organic garden I used...

And now it’s December. The first snow of the season fell the night before last – less than half an inch all told, but it touched every tree and surface with magic, the morning sun sparkling on it all until it melted away.  The story below is the tale of my first snow, and...