Embracing warmer weather and home projects this spring

T-minus nine days until the northern hemisphere officially welcomes spring 2025. This week’s forecast, however, could have fooled me with temperatures projected...

Meeting Mark Souder

Mark Souder’s passing earlier this week hit me harder that I would have expected.

Angelkeep Journals: The ‘sinister’ Tiger Bee Fly

It’s getting onto late-August. An attempt to duplicate a photo of a year ago has so far been unsuccessful. On the first...

Angelkeep Journals: Happy Birthday GGD and OSP

With February’s end near, Angelkeep could almost feel the sting of spring approaching. Spring brings on the rejuvenation of flora and fauna...

Onions and stories of Ancestral April

Angelkeep’s earliest garden produce comes in the form of the Angelkeep onion patch. No lonely little petunia...

As Christmas draws nearer, the birth of the Christ child properly takes center stage

Today is Dec. 19 — six days before Christmas. Somebody wrote something that popped up in my email, saying one in every...

Buckle up for a long election-night ride

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Benjamin Franklin is credited with...

Angelkeep Journals: Bluffton Free Street Fair À la nature

Angelkeep presents a necessary French vocabulary lesson. “À la nature” refers to anything done in a similar manner as...

A cursed prognosticator takes a swing

A number of years ago, a good friend and I were commiserating, perhaps over a brew or two, about how to advance...

Do the math: The Star of Bethlehem

The day of 2025’s pre-Christmas full moon seemed the perfect day to highlight astronomy. Angelkeep never, with a capital N, excelled in...