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My grandparents were born in 1896 and 1901. Their families immigrated to Detroit when they...

During the Christmas season poinsettias, Norfolk pines, Christmas cactus, cyclamen and rosemary are often purchased...

Its Christmas time and I love how the fragrance and beauty of evergreens adds to celebrating...

The New Evangelization, media promoting the Church, bishops and bloggers, Vatican web presence…a Papal Twitter...

I know…this is supposed to be about Christmas greens…next week, I promise. I’ve had several...

This tree has its own familiar presence in our lives. In the tradition of the...

I’m on a mission to dethrone the poinsettia as the Christmas plant in Catholic homes and...

Elizabeth asked...in a couple hundred words or less to tell of the cloud of witnesses by...

From early November until Thanksgiving, I’m usually bundled up puttering in unheated garages or pole...

The black tree limbs are naked of leaves and their outline contrasts against the heavy...

In the Adoration Chapel the lights are low. On the altar the oil candles flicker...

The large fox squirrel is gathering and burying a cache of nuts. Making short raspy...

I’m really not very political and just barely politically correct.  But still, I wonder what...

Gardening at home is a private thing; it’s when I look really bad and after...

I look at my gardens in despair. The seeds of fox-tail grass and tall Queen Ann's...

I feel like a little violet among the mighty oaks. I am delighted and honored...

  Autumn moves in with its usual quiet grace. I took note the other day...