When I saw the video, I was amazed at how calm and calming the humans and, to some extent, the snake were in doing what it took for the...

Emily Dickinson writes, “I started early — Took my dog.” In my case, I started late and took my croissant, and unlike Dickinson, I wasn’t looking for mermaids in the basement of the ocean or fleeing from the silver-tongued tide. Nope, I was savoring one flowering tree after another, that and buttery layers of flakey wonder. Each spring, I hit the pause button on my life at some moment, and if I’m smart, many moments, and head out into the neighborhoods to worship at the flee

There are days that vanish too quickly, particularly many days populating the month of April when there are floral explosions so...