A Whole New Way to Knit
July 2, 2020
By math. To be fair. tl;dr California is an extremely large, populous state. Mostly, this is cool. We’re an amazingly diverse state that manages to be on the vanguard of all sorts of initiatives. We live together on the Left Read more…
February 10, 2020
I met a conspiracy of ring-tailed lemurs on my way to the post office. If there were a collective noun of you, what would it be?
August 26, 2019
I’ve been excavating the Creativity Room closet, finding treasures amidst the heap of papers and boxes in its depths. Old rectangular beeswax crayons call. I take a colored pencil sketch I was doing of my thigh in light and shadow, Read more…
March 17, 2019
A young woman from the Northeast details her life. She’s from a hardworking family of modest means. Or maybe she’s from a rich family with high expectations. Her family usually contains clueless self-involved parents, often involved in an acrimonious divorce. Read more…
September 20, 2018
Tracking things, making things, and learning things are three of my favorite things to do. We got a new weather station (available on Weather Underground) in December. Unlike our former weather station, all of the sensors in this station are Read more…
September 19, 2018
We’ve lived in this house for 32 years. When we first moved in, all of the local squirrels were California gray squirrels. Eastern fox squirrels were muscling in to many California habitats, but they hadn’t arrived here yet. Fox squirrels Read more…
July 29, 2018
Summer is a good time for cherries and drupes in general, so I get lots of insights into the chewing and eating of cherries. It feels weird to chew cherries with my teeth. My ordinary method is to bite the Read more…
July 19, 2018
As I was eating a bowl of cherries one morning last week, I wondered how much we really need to chew our food. When I was a child, there were characters in books who said that we should chew each Read more…
July 15, 2018
We’ve lived in this place in the forest for 32 years. We never saw a Wilson’s warbler long enough to identify it until last year when we found a stunned female Wilson’s warbler in the road. I held her until Read more…
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