One of the sopranos adjusts the white tie and collar of the 90-year-old bass who still sings with great joy and skill. After the concert,...

We planted the garden this week, and it feels like starting off a new school year. Everyone is sitting politely in neat little rows, and...

We’re back at the beach for the second time in three weeks. We had planned to finish house cleaning and pre-season chores in early April, but that’s when one of our dogs has to have ACL surgery, as a result of over-exuberant squirrel chasing. We clean the oven and coffeemaker and power wash the deck furniture. We wipe the light fixtures and ceiling fans, vacuum underneath couch cushions and wash windows. A man comes to install impossibly green squares of sod on the part of o