October 21, 2011
I wrote an obituary for Beverly Rathcke that was published in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.
January 8, 2011
My friend and mentor Beverly Rathcke passed away on Thursday, January 6, 2011. She died comfortably at home in Ann Arbor after a short illness. Beverly was my faculty advisor for my PhD dissertation in ecology, and in that role she helped me think critically and write clearly. Yet, she fostered more than my scientific [...]
July 17, 2010
I love Michigan. I love living here for many reasons: The weather is fine for knitting much of the year, Snow lining tree branches is gloriously beautiful, Spring ephemerals and flowering trees are a miracle after ice and sleet, Fall is crimson, fiery orange, and golden leaves, enjoyed in crisp sunshine and then tossed by [...]
November 29, 2009
We moved into a new place in August. For a while there we were almost camping because we had the kitchen ripped out…it didn’t feel exceptionally homey. Our fabulous Ann Arbor construction crew gave us a working kitchen in our bump out just before Thanksgiving. We moved our plates, spices, glasses, and cookware into the [...]
August 1, 2009
I’m on vacation. And I read The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High by Arianne Cohen today. Just sat down and read it, cover to cover, with a break for a fishing trip and dinner. Very pleasurable. I read sections aloud to my husband, to explain why I was laughing out loud. I [...]
June 18, 2009
I shared this story about my cat and my own experience chanting and becoming more joyful through chanting and meditation when I hosted a program earlier this month at the Siddha Yoga Meditation Center in Ann Arbor. My cat’s name is Floyd, and the reason I want to tell you about him is that my [...]
May 15, 2009
My stepmom, Barbara, died yesterday of liver failure. She was the mother of a son, a grandmother, and a great grandmother. She took care of my father in his illness and until his death. She loved to laugh and she loved her family, and she was generous and warm with me and my sister.
December 31, 2008
A year ago I decided to deepen my commitment to acknowledging all that I have received by writing posts on gratitude. This is the last post in the series. Over the last year, I’ve written about large and small things that have made me happy: knitting, food, local pleasures, yoga, meditation, family, going up north, [...]
December 30, 2008
What is a Nostepinde, you might ask? I asked the same thing when I was searching online for a ball winder. For reasons I’ve never quite understood (letting knitters view the yarn in a relaxed state?), yarn stores sell yarn in completely useless skeins, which must be wound into a ball before use. Otherwise it [...]
December 28, 2008
I love knitting. I love yarn. I love yarn shops. I love bamboo and birch needles. I love starting projects. I love finishing them. I love photographing my knitting. I love looking at other people’s knitting (commercial, machine, and hand-knitted) for ideas about pattern and color and yarn. Ravelry.com has just exponentially increased my knitting [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105