After a long, dark Swedish winter, Spring is especially welcome, and the days of endless daylight are a frenzy of activity in the garden.

Their keen observation of nature and its changing phases assured them that physical life went through cycles of birth, death, and renewal. The land itself testified to this belief as it was...

Trees are just as alive as we are, but they are very unlike us. No tree grows to adult stature and then stops. Instead, it spends its whole life growing, repeating the same pattern of stem...

Meanwhile, when we highlight the strong ties of the Armenians to their roots and customs, not only are we talking about the Republic of Armenia, but also about the vast Armenian diaspora...

I have loved weddings for as long as I can remember. I couldn’t tell you why, exactly. When I was a tiny thing, three or four, I had this bride doll whose big blue eyes closed when you...

Spring has returned to the battlefield.

It’s about honoring the passage of one season into the next. It’s about pausing our daily life to spend time with those we love—whether it’s around a crowded table or socially...

This time of year makes me think of moving. New lease. New part of town. New city—sometimes even a new continent. Though that’s increasingly rare these days.

Moving to North Carolina, all cerulean skies, bright swaths of riotous pinks and purples, flowering crape myrtles and wild dashes of forsythia, was magic.