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Every day, there is a single honeybee visiting the lavender plants in my backyard. He pokes around among the flowers, taking his sweet time, and I watch him – her – it as it moves from plant to plant. I feel[more...]

Eugene Roche was one of those actors we all know — the kind with the familiar face, but the unknown name. Roche died last week of a heart attack at 75. He’s a face we have all seen, but even when reading a[more...]

Someone explain this to me: I am 36 years old, but no one ever guesses. I’ve spent my 30s looking like I was in my 20s. So why is it that in the last two weeks, I have sprouted a veritable garden of gray hairs[more...]