I have a new washing machine. I’ve never purchased a new washing machine in my life. The shiny white device now resides in my former darkroom, in a little closet attached to my office. The darkroom was my pride and joy when I set it up about eight years ago. But, you know, things change. [...]

For years I have tried to be PC about not growing large expanses of grass. As in a lawn. We have a little patch in front of my office window, maybe about 12 feet by 28 feet which was planted in grass when I first met my husband and moved into this house to start [...]