Publications
Books
I Gheribizzi di Muzio Oddi, transcribed and edited by Sabine Eiche, with contributions by Sabine Eiche and Alexander Marr, Urbino: Quattroventi, 2005
Presenting the Turkey: The Fabulous Story of a Flamboyant and Flavourful Bird, Florence: Centro Di, 2004
Il barco di Casteldurante all’epoca dell’ultimo duca di Urbino, Urbino: Quattroventi, 2003
Ordine et officij de casa de lo Illustrissimo Signor Duca de Urbino (ms Urb.lat.1248), transcribed and edited by Sabine Eiche; introduction by John Larner with contributions by John Law, Allen Grieco and Sabine Eiche, Urbino: Accademia Raffaello, 1999
Il Giardino di Santa Lucia, Urbino: Accademia Raffaello, 1998
La villa di Monteberticchio, Urbania: Biblioteca e Civico Museo di Urbania, 1995
Children’s stories
“Brunelleschi and His Dome,” The Florentine, vol.5, 104, 18 June 2009, p.16
Articles
Secondary author with Anthony M. Cummings, “Nino Pirrotta’s Early Music-Critical Writings,” Studi Musicali, vol. XXXVII, n. 2, 2008, pp. 253-337
“La Libreria Ducale a Casteldurante,” La Libraria di Francesco Maria II della Rovere a Casteldurante, ed. Mauro Mei and Feliciano Paoli, Urbino: Quattroventi, 2008, pp.83-86
“Henry Hare, Lord Coleraine, and his Visits to Italy,” The Pelican Record, vol.43, n.1, December 2006, pp.79-84
“La biblioteca di Francesco Maria II della Rovere a Casteldurante,” in Collectio Thesauri, ed. M. Mei, Vol.I/1, Florence: Edifir, 2005, pp.171-172
“How we got the bird,” BBC History Magazine, December 2003, pp.20-22
“Il barco ducale di Casteldurante nei disegni della Biblioteca Vaticana,” in I Della Rovere nell’Italia delle corti, Urbino: Quattroventi, 2002, Vol.II, pp.167-179
“Gaetano Piccini e gli Albani,” in Papa Albani e le arti a Urbino e a Roma, Venice: Marsilio, 2001, pp.86-88
“Read all about it,” BBC History Magazine, May 2001, pp.24-26
“An unknown drawing for Seravezza,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.44, 2000, pp.353-355
“Gherardo Cibo: some more pieces to the puzzle,” Notizie da Palazzo Albani, vol.22-29, 1993-2000, pp.161-163
“An unidentified drawing by Palladio,” Apollo, June 2000, pp.22-26
“The Duke of Urbino’s Villa Imperiale: Observations on the facade,” Apollo, March 2000, pp.28-35
“Prince Henry’s Richmond: The Project of Costantino de’Servi,” Apollo, November 1998, pp.10-14
“Il Palazzo ducale di Urbania,” introduction to Urbania Casteldurante Museo Civico, Bologna: Calderini, 1998, pp.VII-XVI
“I Della Rovere mecenati dell’architettura,” Pesaro nell’età dei Della Rovere, vol.III/1, Venice: Marsilio, 1998, pp.231-263
“On the layout of the Cesi Palace and Gardens in the Vatican Borgo,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.39, 1995, pp.258-281
“Un dessin inconnu de Jacopo Zucchi pour la villa Médicis,” Revue de l’Art, 108, 1995, pp.61-64
“Giambologna’s Neptune Fountain in Bologna: newly-discovered letters from 1565,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.38, 1994, pp.428-429
“The Belvedere Court,” The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, London: Thames and Hudson, 1994, pp.508-509
“The Villa Madama,” The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, London: Thames and Hudson, 1994, pp.561-564
“An unknown document and drawing for the cathedral of Urbino,” Studi per Pietro Zampetti, ed. R. Varese, Ancona: Il Lavoro Editoriale, 1993, pp.180-182
“A new look at three drawings for Villa Madama and some related images,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.36, 1992, pp.275-286
“Fossombrone Part II: Il Giardino and La Piantata outside Porta Fano,” Studi di Storia dell’Arte, vol.3, 1992, pp.145-157
“Fossombrone Part I: Unknown Drawings and Documents for the Corte of Leonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, and her son, Giulio della Rovere,” Studi di Storia dell’Arte, vol.2, 1991, pp.71-89
“Prologue to the Villa Imperiale Frescoes,” Notizie da Palazzo Albani, vol.20, 1991, n.1-2, pp.99-119
“Girolamo Genga the Architect: An Enquiry into his Background,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.35, 1991, pp.317-323
“Gaetano Piccini’s Drawings of Urbino,” Notizie da Palazzo Albani, vol.19, 1990, n.2, pp.87-106
“July 1547 in Palazzo Farnese,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.33, 1989, pp.395-401
“Architetture sforzesche,” Pesaro tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, vol.II, Venice: Marsilio, 1989, pp.269-303
“The Mausoleum Plan of Galeazzo Maria Sforza,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.32, 1988, pp.547-553 (with Gregory Lubkin)
“The Sforza Antiquities: Two Wills and a Collection,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.31, 1987, pp.162-167
“The Villa Imperiale of Pesaro,” House and Garden (UK), August 1987
“La corte di Pesaro dalle case malatestiane alla residenza roveresca,” La Corte di Pesaro: storia di una residenza signorile, ed. R. Valazzi, Modena: Panini, 1986, pp.13-55
“Cardinal Giulio della Rovere and the Vigna Carpi,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol.45, 1986, pp.115-133
“The Villa Imperiale of Alessandro Sforza at Pesaro,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.29, 1985, pp.229-274
“Towards a Study of the Famiglia of the Sforza Court of Pesaro,” Renaissance and Reformation, vol.9, 1985, pp.79-103
“Le Basiliche e il loro doppio: le sei tavole di Augsburg,” Roma Sancta: la città delle basiliche, Rome: Gangemi, 1985, pp.47-51
“Towards a Study of the Palazzo di Monte Giordano in Rome: A Plan by Orazio Torriani,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.29, 1985, pp.190-196
“On the Background of Pomarancio’s S.Nicola da Tolentino Interceding for the Souls in Purgatory (S.Agostino, Pesaro) and a Drawing of the Villa Imperiale,” Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, Florence: Giunti Barbèra, 1985, vol.2, pp.191-201
“Francesca Maria II della Rovere’s Delizia in Urbino: The Giardino di S.Lucia,” Journal of Garden History, vol.5, 1985, pp.154-183
“Francesco Maria II della Rovere as a Patron of Architecture and his Villa at Monte Berticchio,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.28, 1984, pp.77-108
“On the Dispersal of Cardinal Bembo’s Collections,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.27, 1983, pp.353-359
“Federico Zuccari and Federico Barocci at Loreto and Urbino,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol.26, 1982, pp.398-400
“The Artist in his Studio by Jan Vermeer: About a Chandelier,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol.99, 1982, pp.203-204
“The Return of Baldassare Castiglione,” Burlington Magazine, vol.123, 1981, pp.154-155
“The Vedetta of the Villa Imperiale at Pesaro,” Architectura, vol.8, 1978, pp.150-165
Reviews
Fritz Barth, Martial Signifiers. Fortress Complexes by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Stuttgart and London: Edition Axel Menges, 2011, in Burlington Magazine, vol.154, 2012, pp.586-587
Daniela Lamberini, Il Sanmarino. Giovan Battista Belluzzi architetto militare e trattatista del Cinquecento (Arte e Archeologia. Studi e Documenti 30), 2 vols., Florence: Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki, 2007, in Burlington Magazine, vol.151, 2009, pp.775-776
Janez Höfler, Der Palazzo Ducale in Urbino under den Montefeltro (1376-1508). Neue Forschungen zur Bau- und Ausstattungsgeschichte, Regensburg: Stell & Steiner, 2004, in Burlington Magazine, vol.143, 2007, pp.491-492
June Osborne, Urbino: The Story of a Renaissance City, London: Frances Lincoln Ltd., 2003, in Renaissance Studies, vol.18, no.4, 2004, pp.618-621
Paolo dal Poggetto (ed.), I Della Rovere, Milan: Electa, 2004, in Burlington Magazine, vol.146, 2004, pp.570-572
Peter Schatborn, Drawn to Warmth, Zwolle: Waanders, 2001, in Apollo, March 2003, p.57
Lisa Oehler, Rom in der Graphik des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, Berlin: Mann, 1997, in Apollo, May 2001, pp.57-58
Newspaper articles
The Florentine
“Hear ye! Hear ye! How the news came to be,” The Florentine, vol.7, 134, 13 January 2011, p.16
“Here today, gone tomorrow,” The Florentine, vol.5, 107, 10 September 2009, p.16
“Some Like It Cold: Chilling Out in the Renaissance,” The Florentine, vol.5, 105, 2 July 2009, p.21
“Mastering the Art of Good Packing,” The Florentine, vol.5, 101, 7 May 2009, p.18
“Itineraries for the Alternative Tourist. Adventures in the Sienese: part II,” The Florentine, vol.5, 99, 9 April 2009, p.20
“Itineraries for the Alternative Tourist. Adventures in the Sienese: part I,” The Florentine, vol.5, 98, 26 March 2009, p.20
“On Top of the Dome, with Pippo,” The Florentine, vol.5, 96, 26 February 2009, p.16
“The Modena Connection,” The Florentine, vol.4, 75, 20 March 2008, p.20
“Chickory Dickory Wok,” The Florentine, vol.4, 73, 21 February 2008, p.21
“Long Live the Button!,” The Florentine, vol.3, 70, 10 January 2008, p.20
“A Penny-pincher’s Guide to Holiday Shopping,” The Florentine, vol.3, 69, 13 December 2007, p.19
“Three Masters,” The Florentine, vol.3, 68, 29 November 2007, p.19
“Money, Money Everywhere, and Not a Coin for Change ,” The Florentine, vol.3, 67, 15 November 2007, p.20
With Mary Anne Pinto, “Changing Spaces,” The Florentine, special edition for the 90th anniversary of the British Institute of Florence, 8 November 2007, pp.28-29
“Food Fit for an Emperor,” The Florentine, vol.3, 61, 26 July 2007, p.21
“Condottieri of Culture,” The Florentine, vol.3, 58, 14 June 2007, p.14
“Step by Step,” The Florentine, vol.3, 55, 3 May 2007, p.18
“Say it with Windows,” The Florentine, vol.3, 52, 22 March 2007, p.18
“Savouring the Seasons,” The Florentine, vol.3, 47, 11 January 2007, p.21
“Christmas Shopping for the Panic-Stricken,” The Florentine, vol.2, 46, 14 December 2006, p.29
“The Trouble with Corners,” The Florentine, vol.2, 45, 30 November 2006, p.19
“Picture This!” The Florentine, vol.2, 44, 16 November 2006, p.22
“Witnesses of the Watery Siege,”The Florentine, special edition, 4 November 2006, pp.20-21
“An Intimate Garden with Grand Appeal: Villa Gamberaia at Settignano,” The Florentine, vol.2, 42, 19 October 2006, p.18
“When the Hills Were Alive With the Sound of Quarrymen,” The Florentine, vol.2, 39, 7 September 2006, p.18
“How Do I See Rome? Let Me Count the Ways,” The Florentine, vol.2, 37, 13 July 2006, p.19
“Giambologna Stopped at Grassina: A Renaissance Treasure to Discover,” The Florentine, vol.2, 34, 1 June 2006, p.20
“Where the Wild Things Grow,” The Florentine, vol.2, 32, 4 May 2006, p.21
“Behind the Agony and the Ecstacy: Michelangelo’s Money,” The Florentine, vol.2, 29, 23 March 2006, p.19
“Walking into History: Time Capsules around Florence,” The Florentine, vol.2, 25, 26 Jan
“The Turkey Dazzles Renaissance Florentines,” The Florentine, vol.1, 20, 17 November 2005, p.20
“Break Away to Urbania,” The Florentine, vol.1, 17, 6 October 2005, p.21
Richmond News
2026
“The nose rose to prominence,” Richmond News, online edition February 21, 2026
“So, who’s holding the cards?” Richmond News, online edition February 7, 2026
“Waste not, want not, hail stale bread,” Richmond News, online edition January 24, 2026
“Alternative solutions, part 2,” Richmond News, online edition January 10, 2026
2025
“The world abounds in alternative solutions,” Richmond News, online edition December 27, 2025
“‘Tis the season to be waiting,” Richmond News, online edition December 13, 2025
“For the love of leaves,” Richmond News, online edition November 29, 2025
“AI, out the starting gate and pounding down the track,” Richmond News, online edition November 15, 2025
“We owe the chicken big,” Richmond News, online edition November 1, 2025
“Is freedom of choice really a freedom?” Richmond News, online edition October 18, 2025
“Farmers feed families,” Richmond News, online edition October 4, 2025
“Grumbling in my garden,” Richmond News, online edition September 20, 2025
“Trades and traditions are alive and well, thank you very much,” Richmond News, online edition September 6, 2025
“The slow but sure changes happening in farming,” Richmond News, online edition August 23, 2025
“The glory of garlic,” Richmond News, online edition August 9, 2025
“Copyright has become a hot topic thanks to AI,” Richmond News, online edition July 26, 2025
“Stop, look and marvel at nature’s hidden transformations,” Richmond News, online edition July 12, 2025
“Please do not disturb,” Richmond News, online edition June 28, 2025
“Protecting the safety of everyone, everything since immemorial,” Richmond News, online edition June 14, 2025
“Nature responds when we give it something money can’t buy,” Richmond News, online edition May 31, 2025
“Social media has actually been around for a long time,” Richmond News, online edition May 17, 2025
“A new pope is due to be chosen,” Richmond News, online edition May 3, 2025
“In Trump’s words,” Richmond News, online edition April 19, 2025
“A pasta, a pope and a place called Pienza,” Richmond News, online edition April 6, 2025
“Paintings that vanish and books that go missing,” Richmond News, online edition March 22, 2025
“Thank goodness nothing is permanent,” Richmond News, online edition March 8, 2025
“The new age of age,” Richmond News, online edition February 22, 2025
“Tomato sauce, quintessentially Italian,” Richmond News, online edition February 8, 2025
“Fraud is on a roll,” Richmond News, online edition January 25, 2025
“Life lessons to be learned from nature,” Richmond News, online edition January 11, 2025
2024
“My garden’s end-of-the-year report card,” Richmond News, online edition December 28, 2024
“Corresponding with Santa Claus,” Richmond News, online edition December 14, 2024
“Display is about messaging,” Richmond News, online edition November 30, 2024
“Homes for all,” Richmond News, online edition November 16, 2024
“What are those things going extinct that aren’t animal, vegetable or mineral?” Richmond News, online edition November 2, 2024
“Leaves from my autumn garden,” Richmond News, online edition October 19 2024
“Many roads lead to companionship,” Richmond News, online edition October 5, 2024
“The long and the short of grass, ” Richmond News, online edition September 21, 2024
“It’s always mattered how you dress for school,” Richmond News, online edition September 7, 2024
“A factotum and the mystery of nail flowers,” Richmond News, online edition August 24, 2024
“Weeds, plants with a mission,” Richmond News, online edition August 10, 2024
“When it gets really hot, eat cool,” Richmond News, online edition July 27, 2024
“The portmanteau word, two meanings packed into one,” Richmond News, online edition July 13, 2024
“Eyes and ears to the ground,” Richmond News, online edition June 29, 2024
“Inflation, a word for many occasions,” Richmond News, online edition June 15, 2024
“I think I made a terrible mistake, but then I’m only human,” Richmond News, online edition June 1, 2024
“The construction, destruction and reconstruction of my Richmond neighbourhood,” Richmond News, online edition May 18, 2024
“The many shades of joy,” Richmond News, online edition May 4, 2024
“Miyawaki mini-forests change more than landscape,” Richmond News, online edition April 20, 2024
“Tea, good for you and good tasting, too,” Richmond News, online edition April 7, 2024
“Old wives’ tales have aged well,” Richmond News, online edition March 23, 2024
“The race is not to the speeder,” Richmond News, online edition March 9, 2024
“When a book was more than words on pages between two covers,” Richmond News, online edition February 24, 2024
“Our food stores of yesteryear and yesterday,” Richmond News, online edition February 10, 2024
“To be blunt about the point of toys,” Richmond News, online edition January 27, 2024
“Going off online onto offline: The benefits of digital detox,” Richmond News, online edition January 13, 2024
2023
“Reflecting on the history of birthdays on the cusp of a new year,” Richmond News, online edition December 30, 2023
“The winter garden is a test,” Richmond News, online edition December 16, 2023
“When building for the climate why not dust off some old solutions,” Richmond News, online edition December 2, 2023
“In awe of ants,” Richmond News, online edition November 18, 2023
“Death by textiles,” Richmond News, online edition November 4, 2023
“Profit and privilege,” Richmond News, online edition October 21, 2023
“Isn’t it time to let the goat not get our goat?” Richmond News, online edition October 7, 2023
“The earthworm, a creature more complex than I ever imagined,” Richmond News, online edition September 23, 2023
“The family, a species on the brink of extinction?” Richmond News, online edition September 9, 2023
“Pressed for time,” Richmond News, online edition August 26, 2023
“So you’re down to your last penny,” Richmond News, online edition August 12, 2023
“Don’t curb marigolds on the curb,” Richmond News, online edition July 29, 2023
“Digital may be hot but analog is cool,” Richmond News, online edition July 15, 2023
“In nature, connected doesn’t mean interchangeable,” Richmond News, online edition July 1, 2023
“Little Red Riding Hood and the big, bad scammer,” Richmond News, online edition June 17, 2023
“The pancake,” Richmond News, online edition June 3, 2023
“Forest bathing,” Richmond News, online edition May 20, 2023
“Symbols, celebrations, ceremonies and lots of gold,” Richmond News, online edition May 6, 2023
“Cursive is not a curse,” Richmond News, online edition April 22, 2023
“To be a bee,” Richmond News, online edition April 8, 2023
“Are we living Aesop’s fable of the hare and the tortoise?” Richmond News, online edition March 25, 2023
“The Mediterranean diet and the Mediterranean way of eating,” Richmond News, online edition March 11, 2023
“Taking stock of our senses,” Richmond News, online edition February 25, 2023
“It’s all about numbers,” Richmond News, online edition February 11, 2013
“Noise smothers sound,” Richmond News, online edition January 28, 2023
“The dilemma of the original human product,” Richmond News, online edition January 14, 2023
2022
“Outside the box,” Richmond News, online edition December 31, 2022
“Santa, whose tune are you dancing to anyway?” Richmond News, online edition December 17, 2022
“We exist in a context, and it’s important,” Richmond News, online edition December 3, 2022
“The peerless pear,” Richmond News, online edition November 19, 2022
“Blue is a many splendored thing,” Richmond News, online edition November 5, 2022
“What’s so bloomin’ wonderful about herbs anyway?” Richmond News, online edition October 22, 2022
“The lawn way down,” Richmond News, online edition October 8, 2022
“The archives, where history comes to rest,” Richmond News, online edition September 24, 2022
“A bid to refine the meaning of heritage trees,” Richmond News, online edition September 10, 2022
“Rites of August,” Richmond News, online edition August 27, 2022
“What goes app must come down,” Richmond News, online edition August 13, 2022
“Keep your cool,” Richmond News, online edition July 30, 2022
“Dirty surprises,” Richmond News, online edition July 16, 2022
“A little bird taught me,” Richmond News, online edition July 2, 2022
“What’s there to be scared of?” Richmond News, online edition June 18, 2022
“Worldwide shortage of the milk of human kindness,” Richmond News, online edition June 4, 2022
“See bird fly, see bird eat,” Richmond News, online edition May 21, 2022
“Stop, look, and pay attention,” Richmond News, online edition May 7, 2022
“Where have all the neighbours gone?” Richmond News, online edition April 23, 2022
“I really don’t know crows at all,” Richmond News, online edition April 9, 2022
“Surfeit of obfuscation,” Richmond News, online edition March 26, 2022
“Bird nests 101,” Richmond News, online edition March 12, 2022
“Please hang up,” Richmond News, online edition February 26, 2022
“We have to get SPCT: Serious about the Prevention of Cruelty to Trees,” Richmond News, online edition February 12, 2022
“An annoyance of ads,” Richmond News, online edition January 29, 2022
“Mind-boggling marvel in a shell,” Richmond News, online edition January 15, 2022
“What’s beneath our feet,” Richmond News, online edition January 1, 2022
2021
“Our house in Burkeville 65 years ago,” Richmond News, online edition December 18, 2021
“Speaking in gestures,” Richmond News, online edition December 4, 2021
“Sizing up size,” Richmond News, online edition November 20, 2021
“The many roles of the bench,” Richmond News, online edition November 6, 2021
“To make do,” Richmond News, online edition October 23, 2021
“Rights for the voiceless,” Richmond News, online edition October 9, 2021
“Mowed to measure,” Richmond News, online edition September 25, 2021
“The dilemma of feeding birds,” Richmond News, online edition September 11, 2021
“Holy Mackerel,” Richmond News, online edition August 28, 2021
“The bird’s-eye view,” Richmond News, online edition August 14, 2021
“When a traffic jam becomes a sweet treat,” Richmond News, online edition July 31, 2021
“Back to the roots of profit,” Richmond News, online edition July 17, 2021
“When summer vacations were DIY,” Richmond News, online edition July 3, 2021
“The trend to mend,” Richmond News, online edition June 19, 2021
“Behold the birch,” Richmond News, online edition June 5, 2021
“How we can enrich timelines,” Richmond News, online edition May 22, 2021
“The Sundays of yesteryear,” Richmond News, online edition May 8, 2021
“Attitudes to architecture,” Richmond News, online edition April 24, 2021
“Give birds a space of their own,” Richmond News, online edition April 10, 2021
“Points of view,” Richmond News, online edition March 27, 2021
“Concrete cemented its role in history already in ancient times,” Richmond News, online edition March 13, 2021
“We can all be stewards,” Richmond News, online edition February 27, 2021
“The Miyawaki miracle,” Richmond News, online edition February 13, 2021
“When light becomes too much of a good thing,” Richmond News, online edition January 30, 2021
“There’s no half-way when it comes to dressing up,” Richmond News, online edition January 16, 2021
“That comforting smell of old books,” Richmond News, online edition January 2, 2021
2020
“A Christmas without precedent,” Richmond News, online edition December 19, 2020
“Day in day out with the birds,” Richmond News, online edition December 5, 2020
“What’s necessary could be enough,” Richmond News, online edition November 21, 2020
“A garden is for all seasons,” Richmond News, online edition November 7, 2020
“For unity, take diversity, add love, mix well,” Richmond News, online edition October 24, 2020
“Nature, the first teacher,” Richmond News, online edition October 10, 2020
“Out with the old trash, in with the new,” Richmond News, online edition September 26, 2020
“Sit and watch it happen,” Richmond News, online edition September 12, 2020
“Manifestation of hope,” Richmond News, online edition August 29, 2020
“These virulent times,” Richmond News, online edition August 15, 2020
“The point of aphids,” Richmond News, online edition August 1, 2020
“Seeking continuity,” Richmond News, online edition July 18, 2020
“Up in the trees,” Richmond News, online edition July 3, 2020
“The ‘Whispering Giant’,” Richmond News, online edition June 20, 2020
“A vital balancing act,” Richmond News, online edition June 6, 2020
“Simple soap is safest,” Richmond News, online edition May 23, 2020
“Who are the baddies in the yard?” Richmond News, online edition May 9, 2020
“Don’t let the pandemic keep you from keeping fit,” Richmond News, online edition April 25, 2020
“Cabin fever is curable,” Richmond News, online edition April 11, 2020
“Feeling overwhelmed, seeking refuge,” Richmond News, online edition March 28, 2020
“No vaccinations yet but plenty of cancellations,” Richmond News, online edition March 14, 2020
“We’re plagued,” Richmond News, online edition February 29, 2020
“What romance is all about,” Richmond News, online edition February 14, 2020
“We need words in order to see,” Richmond News, online edition February 1, 2020
“Eye to the sky,” Richmond News, online edition January 18, 2020
“A tale of two hankies,” Richmond News, online edition January 4, 2020
2019
“The alternative tree and its ornaments,” Richmond News, online edition December 21, 2019
“Today’s stuff is tomorrow’s junk,” Richmond News, online edition December 7, 2019
“Raving about radicchio,” Richmond News, online edition November 23, 2019
“Where steps lead,” Richmond News, online edition November 9, 2019
“The spin on spiders,” Richmond News, online edition October 26, 2019
“The shape of the world,” Richmond News, online edition October 12, 2019
“Too late to wait,” Richmond News, online edition September 28, 2019
“A skill as ancient as we are,” Richmond News, online edition September 14, 2019
“Childhood then and now,” Richmond News, online edition August 31, 2019
“An afternoon at the Farm Fest,” Richmond News, online edition August 17, 2019
“Some solutions grow on trees,” Richmond News, online edition August 3, 2019
“Cheep entertainment,” Richmond News, online edition July 20, 2019
“The fabulous fennel,” Richmond News, online edition July 6, 2019
“Aiming for zero food waste,” Richmond News, online edition June 22, 2019
“The first ‘R’,” Richmond News, online edition June 8, 2019
“On foot from Burkeville to Marpole,” Richmond News, online edition May 25, 2019
“Crow characters,” Richmond News, online edition May 11, 2019
“The Peace of Weeds,” Richmond News, online edition April 27, 2019
“The toilet paper rip off,” Richmond News, online edition April 13, 2019
“In and around corners,” Richmond News, online edition March 30, 2019
“To leave or not to leave, that is the question,” Richmond News, online edition March 16, 2019
“The reuse mentality,” Richmond News, online edition March 2, 2019
“The seat of love,” Richmond News, online edition February 14, 2019
“The modus operandi of cooking vegetable soup,” Richmond News, online edition February 2, 2019
“The distance to Obsolete is shrinking,” Richmond News, online edition January 19, 2019
“A few of my favourite things,” Richmond News, online edition January 5, 2019
2018
“Christmas memories,” Richmond News, online edition December 22, 2018
“Garden City Lands, a metaphorical tapestry,” Richmond News, online edition October 27, 2018
“It’s all the rage,” Richmond News, online edition September 29, 2018
“The dreaded 9-letter ‘d’ word,” Richmond News, online edition September 15, 2018
“Fire’s appetite for carelessness is insatiable,” Richmond News, online edition September 1, 2018
“Blessings in disguise,” Richmond News, online edition August 18, 2018
“Let nature take care of nature,” Richmond News, online edition August 4, 2018
“The importance of being amused,” Richmond News, online edition July 22, 2018
“The dilemma of believing,” Richmond News, online edition July 7, 2018
“The barber of Richmond,” Richmond News, online edition June 23, 2018
“Crows are no pigs,” Richmond News, online edition June 9, 2018
“Interrupt corruption abruptly,” Richmond News, online edition May 26, 2018
“Saving Safeway memories,” Richmond News, online edition May 12, 2018
“When Vancouver International Airport was a teenager,” Richmond News, online edition April 28, 2018
“Finding a purpose,” Richmond News, online edition April 14, 2018
“The crows in my life,” Richmond News, online edition March 31, 2018
“Connect, converse, relate,” Richmond News, online edition March 17, 2018
2017
“Nature nurtures mind,” Richmond News, December 8, 2017, p.16
“Have gun, have trouble,” Richmond News, November 15, 2017, p.15
“Look ahead to the past,” Richmond News, October 26, 2017, p.22
“For whom the bridge tolls,” Richmond News, September 22, 2017, p.16
“Miracles in the garden,” Richmond News, August 4, 2017, p.16
“Make your own cheap ‘ricotta’,” Richmond News, July 7, 2017, p.18
“Voting was once a privilege,” Richmond News, April 26, 2017, p.10
“What dolls, eyes, insects and puppies have in common,” Richmond News, April 5, 2017, p.16
“The snow and I, a failed relationship,” Richmond News, February 24, 2017, p.19
“’Curious behaviour’ proves hard to define,” Richmond News, January 20, 2017, p.18
2016
“The myrrh the merrier,” Richmond News, December 21, 2016, p.16
“Truth is now enslaved to entertainment,” Richmond News, December 9, 2016, p.21
“The long, short of Movember ‘stashes’,” Richmond News, November 25, 2016, p.16
“War never really ends,” Richmond News, November 9, 2016, p.B16
“Collecting fun facts doesn’t amount to learning,” Richmond News, November 4, 2016, p.13
“It’s senseless to kill our green benefactors,” Richmond News, October 7, 2016, p.16
“The great nut divide,” Richmond News, September 9, 2016, p.27
“Give your brains, not your thumb, a workout,” Richmond News, August 26, 2016, p.21
“Zucchini deserve major PR campaign,” Richmond News, July 29, 2016, p.44
“You can sell a house, but you can’t sell a home,” Richmond News, July 22, 2016, p.12
“Richmond lots, $300 per acre – in 1935,” Richmond News, June 17, 2016, p.28
“The things one hears,” Richmond News, June 3, 2016, p.25
“Listen to nature,” Richmond News, May 6, 2016, p.13
“More than trunks, branches,” Richmond News, April 20, 2016, p.11
“Communicate to integrate,” Richmond News, March 4, 2016, p.19
“Are modern brides ready to get hitched and be buxom?” Richmond News, February 10, 2016, p.14
“Romans called death a ‘debt of nature’,” Richmond News, February 3, 2016, p. 21
“How to heal community spirit,” Richmond News, January 8, 2016, p.14
2015
“Explaining Christmas to an alien,” Richmond News, December 23-24, 2015, p.32
“Nibble on the past with words,” Richmond News, November 27, 2015, p.B8
“Food frugality will help sustain nature’s bounty,” Richmond News, November 20, 2015, p.16
“When numbers outnumber the fingers on your hand,” Richmond News, October 30, 2015, p.30
“Who’s a migrant and who’s a refugee?” Richmond News, October 2, 2015, p.13
“Top up your measure of suspicion,” Richmond News, September 16, 2015, p.22
“Eating ‘real’ food isn’t just for foodies,” Richmond News, September 4, 2015, p.25
“Not dead yet: book cupboards are rising out of the ashes,” Richmond News, August 14, 2015, pp.20-22
“Dirty, but essential,” Richmond News, July 29, 2015, p.14
“Pedal away from pollution,” Richmond News, June 18, 2015, p.22
“Once upon a time, there was a greener Richmond,” Richmond News, May 21, 2015, p.18
“The art of cultivating cultural harmony,” Richmond News, April 16, 2015, p.20
“Eating your words,” Richmond News, January 21, 2015, p.13
2014
“Favourite words used in the business of politics,” Richmond News, December 12, 2014, p.12
“Putting ‘think’ back into ‘thanks’,” Richmond News, October 8, 2014, p.13
“Measuring out on a limb,” Richmond News, September 17, 2014, p.21
“A little learning is a dangerous thing: more is better,” Richmond News, August 27, 2014, p.17
“A funny thing about humour,” Richmond News, July 18, 2014, p.22
“Canada, through the eyes of foreigners,” Richmond News, June 27, 2014, p.B6
“When equal doesn’t equal fairness,” Richmond News, June 4, 2014
“If the idiom fits, wear it,” Richmond News, May 23, 2014, p.16
“Examples not to follow,” Richmond News, May 7, 2014, p.14
“No-knead to press bread,” Richmond News, April 2, 2014, p.17
“Who’ll be moving the mail?” Richmond News, February 19, 2014
“A friend by many other names, Richmond News, February 5, 2014, p.14
“It’s filthy, stinking, lucky and rich,” Richmond News, January 15, 2014, p.13
2013
“How we celebrated our first Canadian Christmas,” Richmond News, December 24, 2013, p.11
“Language worth wearing,” Richmond News, December 13, 2013, p.23
“More names into words,” Richmond News, November 22, 2013, p.20
“There’s a treasure hoard outside your house,” Richmond News, November 8, 2013, p.18
“The tooth of the matter,” Richmond News, October 4, 2013, p.15
“Beets, carrots off beaten path,” Richmond News, September 20, 2013, p.25
“Outwitting urban wildlife,” Richmond News, September 13, 2013, p.22
“Your business is their business,” Richmond News, August 23, 2013, p.20
“Words into surnames, back into words,” Richmond News, July 12, 2013, p.26
“Think more, waste less,” Richmond News, June 28, 2013, p.12
“Food farming interest enjoying rebirth,” Richmond News, June 19, 2013, p.11
“From chemistry lab to plate,” Richmond News, June 19, 2013, p.13
“The zany story of where pants come from,” Richmond News, May 31, 2013, p.14
“Heritage or blockbuster,” Richmond News, May 3, 2013, p.16
“Granola, muesli’s sinful sister?” Richmond News, April 17, 2013, p.12
“Something cool about awesome and neat,” Richmond News, March 29, 2013
“Speaking of the papal election,” Richmond News, February 27, 2013, p.17
“Saint Valentine’s story has an unexpected twist,” Richmond News, February 8, 2013, p.21
“What we’ve inherited from warriors of the past,” Richmond News, January 25, 2013, p.19
“Keeping local history alive,” Richmond News, January 11, 2013, p.16
2012
“Who’s that wild man with Santa?” Richmond News, December 19, 2012, p.19
“They say good hosts make bad guests,” Richmond News, December 5, 2012, p.21
“Food labels don’t tell the whole story,” Richmond News, November 28, 2012, p.12
“When you need to answer a call of nature,” Richmond News, November 9, 2012, p.14
“Hang on to that jack-o’-lantern,” Richmond News, October 26, 2012, p.16
“Have your plate and eat it too,” Richmond News, October 3, 2012, p.9
“Out with packaging, in with loose,” Richmond News, September 26, 2012, p.15
“Got leftovers? Make some fritters,” Richmond News, September 21, 2012, p.14
“It’s so easy to get words wrong,” Richmond News, September 14, 2012, p.14
“Education versus teaching,” Richmond News, September 7, 2012, pp.12-13
“Ancient mythology alive in language,” Richmond News, August 31, 2012, p.12
“You don’t want to be perfect,” Richmond News, August 24, 2012, p.24
“When humans ape animals,” Richmond News, August 1, 2012, p.12
“’This the season to vacation,” Richmond News, July 27, 2012, p.15
“Old words that still pack a punch,” Richmond News, July 11, 2012, p.12
“Don’t get shopped while shopping in a shop,” Richmond News, June 27, 2012, p.11
“Weeds, your blight, my delight,” Richmond News, June 20, 2012, p.20
“When we began to tell time,” Richmond News, June 15, 2012, p.25
“It has rained, it is raining, it will start to rain,” Richmond News, June 8, 2012, p.12
“Words can open doors to history and culture,” Richmond News, May 25, 2012, p.14
“In fine fettle, like a knight ready for battle,” Richmond News, May 16. 2012, p.10
“Nostalgic for the flavours of Tuscany in spring,” Richmond News, May 9, 2012, p.9
“It’s all Greek to me now,” Richmond News, May 2, 2012, p.17
“Foreign names taste better,” Richmond News, April 25, 2012, p.14
“Eternity or the landfill, you have the choice,” Richmond News, April 11, 2012, p.27
“Knuckle down and speak body language,” Richmond News, March 30, 2012, p.14
“How newspapers got their names,” Richmond News, March 21, 2012, p.11
“As highrises creep up and up, fellowship falls and fades,” Richmond News, March 16, 2012, p.11
“Train our memory,” Richmond News, March 2, 2012, p.13
“Olive oil the life blood of Tuscany,” Richmond News, February 22, 2012, p.10
“Writer gets to the root of why hair stands on end,” Richmond News, February 8, 2012, p.10
“The changing flavour of money,” Richmond News, February 1, 2012, p.15
“The joys of being powerless,” Richmond News, January 20, 2012, p.13
“Let’s not become their prey,” Richmond News, January 13, 2012, p.12
“Adopting the two faces of Janus,” Richmond News, January 6, 2012, p.12
2011
“Santa began as ancient goddess,” Richmond News, December 16, 2011, p.25
“Where there’s charity, there’s humanity,” Richmond News, December 9, 2011, p.15
“Become part of ‘the lovely machinery for living’,” Richmond News, December 7, 2011, p.17
“It’s all in the pronunciation,” Richmond News, November 25, 2011, p.11
“Money message dates back to old Italy,” Richmond News, November 18, 2011, p.27
“But aren’t we the monsters?” Richmond News, November 16, 2011, p.19
“Spoken like a farmer,” Richmond News, November 2, 2011, p.15
“Magical words evolved over time,” Richmond News, October 28, 2011, pp.15-18
“Hallowe’en a treat for just-landed immigrant girl,” Richmond News, October 26, 2011, p.13
“Good gardens = good neighbours,” Richmond News, October 12, 2011, pp.10-11
“Smarter than the average word,” Richmond News, September 28, 2011, p.10
“Where have all the words gone?” Richmond News, September 21, 2011, p.15
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