One of my 5,000 or so pet theories is that every adult male has a scar on his chin. If not every male, then at least every one who was once a real boy, a “Look, Ma, no hands” boy, spelled B-O-Y. I have a doozy of one, but because it’s obscured by my facial plumage, I never think of it. ...

In lawn care, as in politics, an extreme, black-or-white approach can be impractical and turn off the masses. But in the garden, at least, gray can be the perfect shade of green. Take, for instance, the No Mow May movement. Is it necessary to allow your entire property to turn into a weedy ...

There are two handwritten entries and one photo in my baby book. My aunt took the photo, not my parents. I was the third child, and I took this lack of documentation as a sign that my arrival wasn’t important. I mentioned the sole picture in my baby album to my mother the other day. Her ...

Whether working outside, with hand tools or fixing up a house, there is a rite of passage: the emergency room trip for an updated tetanus shot. We live in an area where our yard is filled with buried treasure, if you consider treasure to be rusty nails, old septic systems and wire fencing. ...