Updates
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My previous posted elsewhere entry did not include at least one thing I’m really proud of, so I wanted to extend that list here. Through Matterhorn’s work, we got to know and collaborated with John T. Matthias on an article for the NCSC‘s 2020 Trends in State Courts. In the piece, we discuss how our
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In late September, 2020, it was finally time to dye my wool and Kelly’s thread with the pokeberries. After gathering pokeberries for two months, we had collected over 2.5 kg (over 5 lbs) of berries. We took our stored berries out of our freezers the night before to thaw them. Preparing the pokeberries It was
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My sister’s father-in-law told someone that I “got my Ph.D. in weeds.” He’s not wrong. I studied native and non-native old-field plants in SE Michigan. This usually doesn’t really help when he or a friend has a question about a weed in Tennessee…but it does help me to notice the plants in the margins around
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Of all preserves, marmalade is my favorite. I prefer the tang of marmalade on my morning toast with tea, and I prefer making it rather than purchasing it. The recipes are simple: fruit, juice, a LOT of sugar, and time for soaking to extract the pectin from the fruit to jell the marmalade. These recipes
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I walk to keep my back feeling better, to shake off some of the despair of the pandemic, and to plan what to write when not in front of my screen with the blank whiteness telling me I’m empty when I’m not. This morning I walked in the sunny chill. As I crested a wooded
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And yet if we persist in believing that we alone, living in whatever culture we’re from, are right, and that we therefore have no need to listen to anyone else’s stories, stories that we often can’t quite understand and so are unwilling to discuss, we endanger ourselves. Barry Lopez, Horizon, pp 45-6. Right now, I’m