January Is National Soup Month. Celebrate by inviting some neighbors in for soup and bread, perhaps folks you don’t know very well. Before you know it, your neighborhood will have…

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By popular demand, here is the intriguing, drama-filled story of James Smithson, the renegade British aristocrat and scientist who provided the funds for the Smithsonian, with little direction and few…

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I’m teaching several workshops in the coming weeks, and I would love to see you there. Read on for complete schedule. And send me a note (yellow box at the…

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Today, December 12, is Poinsettia Day. That was the day on which Joel Roberts Poinsett, for whom this beautiful holiday plant is named, died in 1851. More about Mr. Poinsett…

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