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A very stylish announcement for Dell’s sleek new laptop arrived today featuring a very pouty model-type grasping the laptop with all the str...

I was so proud to have identified a plant in our yard as a mint (square stem, opposite leaves) and brought in to class as we were instructed...

Travelmarx recommendations for winter 2009 (now that’s we are officially in spring, right?) are releases from 2008. Figures. Travelmarx is ...

Certainly part of the pleasure of Lapham’s Quarterly is the artwork sprinkled in with the writing. The winter 2009 issue – titled Eros and...

Several years ago we attended an etiquette talk and the one thing we remember from that talk is the 3-3-3 rule: take 3 minutes to write 3 li...

  I must admit I knew nothing of these two names three weeks ago. It’s week two of the Plant ID course and we started using C. Leo Hitchcoc...

The key to the title of Sarah Vowel’s book The Word Shipmates lies in her statement that the Puritans’ “single-minded obsession with one bo...

  This evening I started a six week course (one night a week) on plant identification. The course is offered by the University of Washington...