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Clash of the Control Titans

Clash of the Control Titans

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 […]

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Greeks and Squirrels Go the Way of Burgers and Fries

Greeks and Squirrels Go the Way of Burgers and Fries

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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Betty Crocker in a DoorDash World

Betty Crocker in a DoorDash World

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.

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The Things We Do for Love

The Things We Do for Love: “Kicking Horse Pass Kicked My Ass” and Other Adventures

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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No Nostalgia Pity-Party

No Nostalgia Pity-Party: Revisiting the Simplicity of the Past

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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Canadian Bakin'

Canadian Bakin’

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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