Back from Detroit

And it was just as fascinating as that stretch of Hadley where all the big boxes have set up shop, only there was more of it. I always try to find things in a place that are unique to that place, and it's harder and harder to do. It feels as if either a) Americans...

Fragility/Durability*

This spring, when all those first shoots were coming up—snowdrops, the spears before crocus or daffodil set to bloom, furled leaves curled, practically fetal—I kept thinking again and again how impossibly tender and small and delicate the green seemed. How...