For quite some time now, my husband Vince and I have been working to restore a path my dad cut through the woods nearly 30 years ago. We owe our pace -- a pocket full of nails, a board or two, a few random cuts of low hanging branches -- to our lack of both [...]
I love to walk through the woods on any occasion, but especially with my daughter Molly because she knows things. Yesterday, we went foraging -- she for morel mushrooms, garlic mustard and stinging nettles and me for stories. While she came up empty handed, which is good, she said, because garlic mustard and stinging nettles [...]
Today we salute a strong young woman who taught Molly and me to stand tall, celebrate passion and eat copious amounts of chocolate. Molly's sister Katherine turns 23 tomorrow. A working actress, she lives in Chicago now where she frequently freaks us out with her casual mentions of late night bus rides, and impresses us [...]