Unfriending in Three Acts
As a relationship unravels, the gardener hangs on to hope, anger, and a truckload of recalcitrant bamboo.
Read MorePosted by R.E. Faro | Sep 1, 2012 | Faro's Garden |
As a relationship unravels, the gardener hangs on to hope, anger, and a truckload of recalcitrant bamboo.
Read MorePosted by R.E. Faro | Apr 1, 2012 | Faro's Garden |
The gardener explores the feelings of impotence—and gratitude—that arise from letting someone else do the heavy lifting.
Read MorePosted by R.E. Faro | Oct 1, 2011 | Faro's Garden |
In the sweet solitude of the woods, our gardener finds respite from road rage and other urban ills.
Read MorePosted by R.E. Faro | Mar 1, 2011 | Faro's Garden |
There are two types of people in this world: those who think arugula is all that, and those who never heard of it. With his natural aplomb, the gardener finds that those in both camps—and several other camps, as well—share common roots.
Read MorePosted by R.E. Faro | Oct 1, 2010 | Faro's Garden |
The literary gardener, a regular Monthly columnist since 1996, contemplates his arrival in San Francisco from Kansas 40 years ago—as well as, let’s see, the Count of Monte Cristo, overdue library books, iPods, and France’s famous Proust. As ever, nothing is quite as random as it seems.
Read MoreHidden in the East Bay hills, the Carmelite nuns of Kensington live at the most secluded monastery in the United States.