Every time I come home from the Tea Pavilion Park, my mother always buys a big watermelon, which is sweet and makes me feel that summer is also sweet. Every season is beautiful, but my favorite is still summer. 夏天到了,太阳像一个大火球一样无情地炙烤着大地,地表温度高得仿佛可以把鸡蛋...
Oaf (n.) Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot. Oafish (a.) Like an oaf; simple. Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and...
Only a Belle can give them beauty. Camellia desperately wants to be the queen's favorite. Unfortunately life at court is not as simple as Camellia thought. She has to manage the intrique and secrets behind the court... More About This Book The Benefits of Being an Octopus Ann Braden ...
Bummeln itself originally meant ‘swinging back and forth [like a pendulum]’, the way that a cowbell does when the cow ambles about. Its origin is onomatopoeic (with variants like bimmeln and bommeln also found) and exactly parallel to English bumble, though with a sl...
Voices are gold. Walking with a masked friend while maintaining distance is a rare and luxuriously intimate experience. I learned that I prefer my own cooking. I spent a lifetime going out with friends and family, but it wasn’t the restaurant food or the bar drinks that I craved-it was...
Anne and Melanie, Bridget and Carole and Tommy, all my parish family who have scraped little bits of orange cheese on celery sticks, dumped a box of crackers on a plate, put another pot of coffee on. We know that power. My entire life, the go-to response to strong emotion is food....
What I am starting to understand, is that I don’t need to shine a light in my dark places. I need to open the door, step into the darkness, take a seat, and get to know it. Welcome all of my Self to exist and be acknowledged. When I enter these dark places, I now work to...
once again, expressed his great appreciation for Jill going to the trouble to make a marvelous wizard’s cloak costume for him and one for herself as Queen of the Autumn fairies. Even more amazing was the costume she had made for him as the Greek god, Pan, and for herself as a woodlan...
nimble fairies and moonlit snow. Choreographed by James Canfield, Las Vegas’ favorite holiday tradition is filled with glittering holiday cheer as Clara and her handsome Prince travel from the warmth of her family home to a land of toy soldiers, mischievous rodents and exotic visitors from fa...
34 years. And I really do believe that plants propagated from plants that “like” captivity have produced progeny that are much easier to grow, in just a few generations instead of eons. Or maybe I’m just a better grower–whatever. RB: What is your favorite plant (indoor or otherwise)...