I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and eve...

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of li...

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants an...

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice...

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and...

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees...

I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just...

I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering...

Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further...

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled tre...

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groce...

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees...