Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Clash of the Control Titans What if you put two people with an overwhelming need to control the environment in the same space, but their respective ideas of “a place for everything and everything in its place” mean something entirely different? There may be underlying forces so powerful that […]
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Irish Evening I’m forever amazed and heartened by the quiet, crepuscular triumph of an Irish evening over grey daytime skies and grey daytime notions. By Allison McBain Hudson It starts to get to me after a while, the greyness. Summer, says the calendar, but the Irish weather often seems
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy A Wink and A Dash America’s still a “proper country,” as it was decades ago when suburban teenagers went cruising with family cars. By Russ Smith Several times a week, while looking at X/Twitter, I see a post from a person (or paid-off bot) with a picture of, say,
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Greeks and Squirrels Go the Way of Burgers and Fries Stand your lingual ground, or else listen to Greeks and squirrels go the way of burgers and fries. By John G. Stamos North America is in the grip of a crisis of immense, yet seemingly incongruent proportions. A Greek
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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.
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
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