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If the name Julia Ward Howe is familiar at all today, it is as the writer of the American anthem “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” But she was famous in her lifetime as poet, essayist, lecturer, biographer, and social reformer. She worked to end slavery, helped to initiate the women’s movement in many states,…

The tree, with its roots buried deep in the Earth and its branches reaching upward toward heaven, spread wide to embrace all of eternity, is a prime symbol of maternal life in many cultures. Trees have long been worshipped as beneficent maternal spirits of bounty. Trees, after all, shade and feed us. Supply and sustain…

 by Mary Saracino  Author’s note: As part of her Earth Day-Sing for the Trees campaign, Susan Hale invites people from around the world to sing to their special trees to help raise awareness about deforestation. If you listen you can hear the trees singing boababs & kauri sugi & sugar maples their voices
rise in harmony…

Being an urban being, I have never had a garden where I grew food. My terrace is devoted exclusively to flowers, food for the soul, for sure, but with the exception of the day lilies they are not edible. My container garden gives me immense pleasure. I love digging in the dirt with my bare…
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