I’ve been doing some calculating. Over the course of the Great Dickens Christmas Fair’s 40 years in the Bay Area, I have personally attended the sprawling, description-defying holiday extravaganza at ...

WHY is Through Many Windows the name of my column, someone once asked me. “Because that’s what life truly is,” I replied.

Cold weather doesn’t have to mean empty, sad-looking window boxes. Even when flowers are done and the garden’s asleep, you can keep those boxes looking pulled together with plants and fillers that don ...

"Glory Windows" adorn the ceiling in the Chapel of Thanksgiving at Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas. When I was in college, I lived on the fourth floor of my dorm. The window beside my desk ...