Living in Season

For years, my holiday calendar contained a reference to the silent, gliding dances of the Bon Odori perfomed during the O-Bon festival in Ja...

Thinking about the fact that this new moon, the sixth new moon of the year in the Chinese calendar, is known as the Lotus Moon. I took this ...

I like to think of Fourth of July as a secular version of pagan Midsummer festivals. Like many historical holidays, Fourth of July se...

In my latest newsletter, I mentioned that I was overwhelmed by the prospect of writing eight or nine articles every month for my Living in S...

I took the train to San Francisco to take a one-day workshop on distilling essential oils from plants with legendary herbalist, ...

On May 14, I attended the Environmental Writing workshop sponsored by the Burke Museum . I especially enjoyed the workshop taught by Lynda M...

The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life ...

You know how much I love Lent . I love how it resonates with the energy of spring, with its encouragement to shed bad habits, to make room ...

It was a goat willow tree that launched My Year in Flower project back in 2008 when it dropped a spent blossom on my head as I walked past w...

My New Year's practice is to make a collage that represents the experiences I hope to enjoy in the new year. For the past few years, I...

At the end of the week, I went away for a three-week mini-retreat which I created and orchestrated so I could have three friends help me fig...

This new year I’ve been feeling really bogged down by all of the clutter in my house. I thought I would get it all cleared out during the we...

The first sign of spring for me is always a delightful flowery fragrance that I call the Scent of Spring. This year I smelled it for the fir...

I am not a Christmas Grinch (though it would be easy to be one). Long ago I learned how to deal with the pressures of Yule, which I should w...

After two weeks of reflection, I don’t think the huge headache I developed after the Herbal Conference at Breitenbush was due solely to caff...

These blog posts are now being cross-posted at my new magazine, Living in Season . Check there for more feature articles. Just got back from...

These entries are now being posted both here and at my new web site, Living in Season . Tell me of what plant birthday a man takes notice, a...

As part of my experiment with edible flowers, I made two desserts out of rose petals this past weekend and to my surprise, both of them prod...

I'm a total fan of Havi Brooks of the Fluent Self, so it was totally amazing to be a featured guest at her Kitchen Table, and now she...

I've decided to keep both blogs running, though I will encourage you to sign up at my new blog at my new magazine, Living in Season in ...