I’m going to give away a spoiler: in the most amazing story I have ever seen, heard, or read, the hero dies in the end. They may fight...

The Old Ball and Chain... My wife won’t let me get fat. Within limits. I am very grateful she won’t. I won’t let her be sedentary, though...

On Thursday, I am picking up a cake for a dead man. I do not write much in the way of true details about my personal life on this site....

Trust me, stay for the result of this... In the last thirty minutes the following things have happened and the following thoughts have...

So many people seem to be ashamed of themselves. There are things to be ashamed of, but people are ashamed of the wrong things. I’m not...

It makes me angry when otherwise amazing people find excuses to fail. Plenty has been written about what I am about to say, and none of...

Every day, remind yourself you can quit tomorrow. But not today. You can put it off as many times as you like, but you can only actually...

In a garden almost nothing is forever. Trees can be moved even when they are towering fifty-foot specimens. Shrubs can be split and...

I watch a show from time to time called Gardeners’ World . One of the gardens you see frequently belongs to the host, and is a place...

Weeds are part of every garden, every garden bed, hiding beneath every plant, growing alongside them, or even towering over them. A weed...

I want to admit a few things today about editing, writing, and my journey as a writer through the brutal course of authorship. Some...

The most important thing you will ever do in your garden, nobody is going to see. Today, my neighbor asked me, “What are you planting? I...

A carpet of petals from dying flowers Death in a garden is normal. Plants don’t overwinter well. Plants grow old and stop creating...

Monty Don calls any plant that isn’t where it should be a weed. Dandelions in the daffodil bed? Weed. Dandelions in the wildflower...

I am going to be an internationally renowned physicist, author, biologist, powerlifting champion, and gardener with a flair for airplane...

I want to talk to you for a moment about my two cats. Felix is about two years old. He is incredibly athletic, with an easy five-foot...

A few Daffodils... Just as the end of the gardening year is a good time to take stock, so too is the beginning of the gardening year. For...

If you planted a garden in a day, you wouldn’t know if you were successful for a year or more. If you wrote a novel today, and it was the...

Plants sleep, after a fashion. The sun sits too low in the sky, the ground grows hard and cold, and snow blankets bare twigs that...

Courage is a decision.