When I was a child I loved going to the stationery store (it was literally called The Stationery Store) in my small hometown. It was a classic Main Street business where one could buy school supplies (Trapper Keeper for me,…

When Marie-Louise von Franz wrote the following sentence down while researching a military battle, it triggered the "craziest synchronicity" she ever experienced: "Sometimes a very insignificant man holds the threads of world history in his hand without knowing it" (Conversations…

 "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin." So says Linus Van Pelt in the It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Halloween TV special from 1966. This was must-see TV…

Yesterday we started saying our final goodbyes to summer by picking the 32 pumpkins in our little pumpkin patch. We decorated several of them and set aside some for baking. As we move deeper into the time of year where…

I have another excuse to revisit Robert Macfarlane's magnificient book, Is a River Alive?, thanks to the recent New Moon in the water sign of Cancer. The constant changing waters of rivers, and their sometimes serpentine path, is much like…