Eating in season.  Tis the season!  While I will admit to buying the occasional exorbitantly-priced half pint of blueberries in the depths of winter (a reward for shoveling the sidewalk and driveway once again?), there is, as we all know, nothing like the taste explosion of a height-of-season homegrown tomato or farmer’s market-fresh bunch of kale. Just as I love the change in seasons, I find something so reassuring and right about the progression of foods at market: first ga

I love books. Spring, it would seem, is the season for reading. But as I considered that point, it got me thinking: It’s undeniably true that each year, when spring (or perhaps more accurately, spring break) rolls around, it’s time to pack up the beach towel, sunglasses, and a few good paperbacks. Before too long, summer’s heat sets in and I spread a blanket beneath the shade of a good tree and sprawl on my belly turning a hardcover’s pages. As the leaves begin to turn and th