My little apartment garden doesn’t provide much for food as it does simple pleasures. 

When I see sprouts peek through the surface of the soil I feel like a scientist beaming at some feat of alchemical transformation, even though I know I planted the [...]

Sidewalk chalk drawings are one those urban features, like paw prints to a tracker, that remind me, indeed, children do reside in this city. Of course, the great sidewalk transit system of strollers in some neighborhoods also do that, but unlike strollers, I brighten up at the sight of chalk [...]