The ruby-throated hummingbird that laid her eggs outside the writer’s kitchen window in blatant disregard of her long-held terms of engagement with Mother Nature. ( Graphic illustration by Zoe Maxfield) The two-ounce interloper One of my favorite things about living in the Warwick Valley is that I can enjoy nature, in all her boundless, magnificent... Habitat 06 May 2022 | 03:46
We have to use a key to let ourselves out, but those doorknobs are some of my favorite things about our 93-year-old farmhouse. ( Evie Maxfield) This old f-ing house When the time was right for me and my husband to purchase a house, we needed to have “the talk.” I told him how, since I... Habitat 16 Feb 2022 | 01:48
The syrup was forgotten about, until one morning, as I prepared my usual boring bowl of oatmeal, I happened to spot it behind a bottle of sriracha in the refrigerator door. ( Evie Maxfield) The last of the two-year-old syrup I hate to say it, but I guess I am a Foodie. I mean, we all have to eat, it’s just that some of us eat to live, and some... Griterati 07 Oct 2021 | 02:26
Maxfield chose the ogre-faced spider because of its “two huge front-facing eyes... I figured that people tend to connect better to animals that have big round eyes like that.” Insect declines are having knock-on effects up the food chain on animals like birds and spiders, whose webs have fewer bugs in them these days. ( Illustration by Zoe Maxfield) The good, the bad and the bugly I freely admit, when it comes to healthy living from the ground up, I am a newbie. One of the most difficult challenges I’ve... Features 20 Jul 2021 | 02:01
The sound and fury of peace and quiet Ah, Warwick! Sunkissed valleys, meandering country lanes, centuries old farmsteads nestled in bucolic pastures. I came here... Griterati 12 Apr 2021 | 03:06
On baking bread There are three things I could never understand: string theory, the rules of baseball, and why it is so hard to bake a decent... Hands 12 Apr 2021 | 02:52
Nouveau country Late last winter, my husband and I purchased an old house in Warwick, a cozy Depression-era Cape Cod on an acre of property.... Yonder 23 Dec 2020 | 10:20
