COVER UP I love tanning in my backyard but not when my dad’s gardening – it’s a constant awkward struggle Dani Grande Published: 18:38, 13 Jul 2023 Updated: 21:45, 13 Jul 2023 ...

"There is truly nothing more embarrassing than tanning in your own yard," she said. She panned the camera over her view: a row of her neighbors' homes. "I can't explain it," she joked, adding the ...

Novelist Amy Tan’s journey, cataloged in her delightful new nonfiction book “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” began with a sketchbook and a pencil. At the age of 64, she enrolled in a drawing ...

“These pages are a record of my obsession with birds,” writes Amy Tan in the preface to “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” and “obsession” is no overstatement. Her new book, culled from ...

Author Amy Tan spends hours in her backyard, watching and drawing birds go about their business. Her new book, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, is full of essays and illustrations about her ...

“I’m a dependable human,” Ms. Tan writes in her newest book, “The Backyard Bird Chronicles.” “Every bird says so.” She also writes: “I am controlled by birds.” Not that Ms. Tan ...