The Danger Of Statistics
HOLLYWOOD—Statistics are best used sparingly, if at all. A sanguine approach is to handle these mantras of the Western world with the care usually...
Taking It To The Streets
UNITED STATES—No matter how unique the individual gardens are, conforming street trees really unify a neighborhood. Streets of tract homes are typically planted with...
Sliding With Svetlana
HOLLYWOOD—An army travels on its stomach, they say, and there are times after midnight when an army must be inside me. I break this...
How To Deceive Smart Seeds
UNITED STATES—Plants could not proliferate as they do if they were as unintelligent as they seem to be. Actually, much of their activity would...
Fear Of Flying: The Emotional Trauma
UNITED STATES—A considerable number of people died horrific deaths on July 6, 2013. Six from gunshot wounds in Chicago, 15 in a devastating Canadian...
Celebrity Dieting: Hitchcock (Final Part)
HOLLYWOOD—Let’s have a summing up on Alfred Hitchcock’s considerable dieting experience and expertise, graded by Sparky, my diet defender. Barks signify approval, and howls,...
Good Neighbors Make Good Fences
Good old fashioned suburbia will never bee the same. Bigger modern homes on smaller modern parcels leave little space for gardening and trees. What...
Celebrity Dieting: Hitchcock (Part 2)
HOLLYWOOD—In 1953, Hitchcock’s weight dropped an impressive forty pounds, to 219, “partly because he wanted to look better for the publicity photos with his...
Eco-Tourism
UNITED STATES—Eco-tourism by the sea, overseas is a new phenomenon, especially forItaly. The government has designated an archipelago of islands called Il Parco Nazionale...
Some Plants Can Go To Pot
UNITED STATES—Chrysanthemums, hydrangeas, azaleas, callas, kalanchoes and miniature roses can not really be as happy as they seem to be while in full bloom...