A garland of silver, anyone?
“You’re getting up there,†read the card we received this month from my mother-in-law, who sent us a congratulatory card to honor our 30th wedding […]
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Carrying forward the message of Earth Day
On April 22, 1970, in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, members of my 8th grade science class trekked to the local creek, where we began
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The language of flowers
What do a nosegay, corsage and boutonniere all share in common? The answer, of course, is that all three are floral arrangements of some kind.
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Earth Day Every Day
The concept of sustainability, as the Environmental Protection Agency defines it, is “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations
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Once upon a bag
Handbags were originally nothing more than sacks made of leaves and animal hide. Egyptian hieroglyphics depict men, not women, wearing them about their waist to