Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Silent Night? The last teeny-tiny little door you’ll open on your Michiana Shores Vicinity Advent Calendar will spell it all out for you: Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like M-80s, human shrieking, rock and roll, and a hearty police presence. Silent night? In your dreams, pal. By John G. Stamos […]
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Inhospitable Hospitality Inhospitable hospitality is the new normal for road-weary travelers. Check in, stuff your ear canals with toilet paper, and sleep the sleep of the just. By John G. Stamos Regular readers of my material in The Renaissance Garden Guy may remember my last offering here that recounted
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Betty Crocker in a DoorDash World What an old, well-loved Betty Crocker cookbook can reveal about our culture of modern ultra-convenience, domesticity, and control. By Jenna Stocker Before Thanksgiving, I was sent my grandmother’s second edition (1956) of Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook (Revised and Enlarged!) by my aunt in Maine. A
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The Things We Do for Love: “Kicking Horse Pass Kicked My Ass” and Other Adventures The things we do for love? Oh, man… Driving at night in the rain on a two-lane ribbon of curvy road carved out of the Canadian Rockies and running across the Continental Divide at
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy No Nostalgia Pity-Party: Revisiting the Simplicity of the Past If Mary Tyler Moore could face the world with undaunted cheer and Happy Days was more than a television show, can’t that world give a kid a glimpse of what the world could be? That’s not nostalgia, it’s reclaiming the
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Canadian Bakin’ Canadian bakin’ (and cookin’, gardenin’, and mushroom huntin’) is just some of what’s in store for The Renaissance Garden Guy and my wife Ann and me as we start our life together here in Bridge Lake, British Columbia, smack dab in the wild heart of the Cariboo
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The Renaissance Garden Guy and Gal “The Renaissance Garden Guy and Gal” is a short chronicling of the events leading up to and surrounding my recent marriage to my wife, Ann. The story proceeds based on my presumption of interest from readers and subscribers, and, while revealing, contains not
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy My Own Boo Radley My favorite book from early days was To Kill a Mockingbird. I imagined that I, like fellow tomboy character Scout Finch, would be brave and kind if I ever had a mysterious, reclusive neighbor like Boo Radley. The opportunity to be wise and understanding came
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Searching for Mid-Century America: 1955 and Kodachrome Dreams The America of 1955 reveals a nation of innovation, optimism, and complexity on the road to fulfill its Mid-Century fate. The search for a cultural identity was reflected in the literature and photography of artists and entertainers who helped curate a
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Raptor Rescue Squad! The Great Grey Owl is arguably the most elusive of the resident raptors found in the South Cariboo, hunting mainly at night, and infrequently seen during the day. A chance sighting of one that happened some years ago spawned the creation of our own “raptor rescue
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