We writers like to take up causes and point out injustices whenever we can. We do this so that we can rationalize a job that requires us — requires, I say — to sit in comfy computer chairs and slurp caramel machiatos. So it is with a great deal of caffeine-fueled righteous indignation that I bring the […]
They arrived last month. Evil, seductive things that they are, they started showing up in my mailbox, unbidden, but promising miraculous results and weeks, nay, months of gratification. And I am powerless to resist. I’m talking, of course, about flower catalogues. Spring is finally here in the northern hemisphere, and that means every nursery from […]