For more than a decade, Sharalee Armitage Howard watched in dismay as the grand cottonwood tree in front of her Idaho home plopped dead branches on her flower gardens and sidewalk. Then came the last ...

I am who I am, and I do what I do, in part because of Mary Pope Osborne. As a kid, I remember beelining straight for the "Magic Tree House" section of the library's children's section, knowing that ...

For more than a decade, Sharalee Armitage Howard watched in dismay as the grand cottonwood tree in front of her Idaho home plopped dead branches on her flower gardens and sidewalk.