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This is the Harvest Issue. I’m glad other people are harvesting be­cause, through the blessing of farmers markets and friends, I won’t starve. My own

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I wrote text for this column last night. Then, with one thoughtless keystroke, it was gone. I wrote a note to the production manager: “I

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The stuff-reduction business is booming. Books, magazines, blogs and websites are devoted to getting organized. Space-saving gizmos for the office, home and car fill entire

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The boiler in this big ol’ house that is home to CATALYST, and to me, too, heaved its last sigh in late fall. Why the

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We probably all have personal signs that tell us, yep, the season has changed. For me, fall begins when I wake up, look west out

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After wrapping up production for last month’s issue, I drove cross-country with my niece, CATALYST art director Polly Plummer Mottonen, and my two great nephews,

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