The Uncarved Block

My dog Molly wants to wish you all a happy holiday!

Elise Sigal holds Erica Sigal 1959 Photo by Marlowe Sigal (c) The Estate of Marlowe A. Sigal   My father was a hell of a photographer. I ...

Preamble: I have a rather productive fig tree that I planted about 10 years ago. It is a ‘Janice Seedless White Kadota’, a fig that is gr...

Over recent years I have found myself thinking more and more about death. The death of my dog Kero, my heart attack, my father’s death, s...

  I am launching another blog (not a replacement for this one, an additional blog.)  Molly Sez - Wit and wisdom from my puppy . I talk to...

If you grow zucchini, then around this time of year you’ve probably hit the zucchini tipping point. You’ve made zucchini pancakes, zucch...

Isolation from the COVID-19 pandemic has lead me to read a number of books I hadn't previously made time for. Recently, Giacomo Caste...

As I sit here today, looking at a world rocked by the COVID-19 crisis and thinking about the vast sums of money needed to address it, I...

Here's my problem living with sheltering in place. [Yes, I know that I am writing this from my place of extraordinarily privileged. I ...

I woke up this morning really, really, truly anxious about the arrival of winter. What is going to happen to people during a winter wi...