The lovely irises are finally blooming. Do you have irises in your landscape? With their colors and gray-green foliage, they can certainly put on a colorful show. Irises are hardy, long-lived ...

This was the last week of individual budget meetings with our departments. I have really enjoyed getting to spend an hour with each department and talk about their plans for the next fiscal year and ...

I have been writing this column every other week for over five years. Counting up a handful of columns that included more than one recipe, plus another handful of extra columns outside of my bi-weekly ...

My windowsills and plant stands have become home to tiny little flower pots and terrariums, some of which just look like dirt. They might just be dirt. Whether they stay just dirt or whether a pothos ...

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how it’s “taking the easy way out” to use GLP-1s to lose weight. That may be true. But then again, you might be able to say the same thing about virtually every ...

My old car had a bumper sticker that said, “Peace begins in the kitchen…go vegan.” We are all interconnected, and I believe that what we choose to eat is a pathway to peace with all living beings and ...

[Expletive deleted], it’s cold! It’s statistically the coldest winter in the last five years. According to A.I., this is due to a “significantly stretched, weakened polar vortex, allowing frigid ...

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I knew less about Olympic halfpipe skier Hunter Hess on Sunday than I did about Bad Bunny. You couldn’t help but hear about Bad Bunny after months of debate over whether he would ruin the Super Bowl ...

Some thoughts about democracy — in no particular order of importance: It’s hard to do democracy when some key social institutions — family, religion, the military — are, in structure, purpose and ...

I went outside to clear my car Monday, Jan. 26 and get ready to document the snow storm, and immediately I wiped out on ice in my driveway. That’s how it started. I spent the day driving and ...