The Backyard Parables Author:Margaret Roach Once upon a time, a faithless twenty-five-year-old got down on her knees and fashioned her first garden. It was a sorry thing, but also a matter of great pride, this perennial checkerboard imprinted on a sloping bit of ground outside her family's kitchen door..." — Roach is back in the garden--where her readers want her!--in The Backyard Parables... more ». Exploring the ways that gardening saved her life and meditating on the spirituality of nature, Roach reminds her readers and herself to keep on digging.« less