When friends tell you to do something, listen. Late in 2013, Luana, a member of my book club, was discussing bestselling novel, Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. I shared the fact that my great-grandmother was an orphan train rider back before the Civil War. And then Luana said, “I think that story would make a great program.” I went …
April, A gardener’s clean slate
If you’re a gardener, you know the siren call of bedding plants and seed packets from the neighborhood garden center. Buy me! Plant me! And if you’re like me, you give in because you believe the colorful posters. You picture in a wide-brimmed hat in a weed-free garden, holding more produce to feed a small army. April is the gardener’s …