Finding hope in the renewal of all things.
Though I'm sure I heard the Christmas song "In the Bleak Midwinter" sometime during the first three decades of my life, it never grabbed my attention until about twenty years ago. I had...
I have a little garden plot in the alley behind our house where I try to grow a few vegetables throughout the...
Admiral Richard Byrd’s Antarctic polar expedition of 1939 and ‘40 had reached Sulzberger Bay—farther than any previous South Pole venture—when its small wooden ship, the U.S.S. Bear, became ice...
Late January through about February, I start to get cranky. I think, deep down, more of my less-than-savory attitude has to do...
Quaint winter scenes often depict skaters on scenic New England ice or bare aspens framed with Rocky Mountain grandeur. But a common La Guardia winter picture is New Yorkers dressed in knit black...
