Planting a tree is not as simple as you might think. Drive to the store — any big box discount store will do — pick out a nice looking tree, dig a hole, plop it in and let nature take care of the rest. Right? Try to go about it that way, and you’ll soon be calling someone like Mike…
As an award-winning writer Jodi Picoult uses her literary X-ray vision to peer inside homes, family ties, relationships and dark secrets of the heart. Her characters seem unnervingly familiar, her revelations are often disturbing, but the most powerful sense a reader gets while consuming one of her novels is one of being taken into confidence, of being told the sometimes…
Braided Geometry A new twist on an old craft Braided rugs that look at home in a contemporary setting get their precise patterns with special techniques. Sandy Luckury, of Bradford, butts the ends of each row instead of braiding in a spiral, to create tidy geometric shapes, including hexagons and squares. By counting the loops, the corners are neat and…
