I only paint my fingernails with garden dirt. Right now, my base coat is a light brown from the peat pellets I use every early spring. Technically, it was still winter when I started my indoor seeding ...

The word human comes from the Latin word humus, which means soil, earth, dirt, and dust. The word humility interestingly comes from the same root word – humus. To be humble then is to be humus – ...

We approach therapy with a very real, humanistic, connection-infused perspective. We are here to do real, hands-in-the-dirt work. This human-work we are here to do cannot be done without humility, ...

“Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” is a line I know from Christian burial services, but I am not a Christian, and dust scares me. Still, I cannot stop thinking about these words. Perhaps ...

SOME FOLKS spend spring weekends honing their abs, hardening their derrieres or building up their biceps. As for me, lately I have been working on upping my humus. Ever since my test results came back ...