Oh baby it's cold outside! How cold is it? It's so cold that my freezer is warmer than the outdoors. Currently it's -7F/-22C and that's several degrees warmer than it was just a few hours ago. The polar vortex will be hanging around for only a few days, and I get to miss most of …
Category: Books
New Year, Sort Of
Here we are, several days into 2025. I hope everyone is doing well. There are so many new year opportunities that the calendar new year is kind of anti-climactic for me. When I was a kid it was great. My family would stay up until midnight to watch the ball drop on TV. We’d get …
Green Plants and Green Houses
I subscribe to a couple newsletters about foraging, and one, from a local person who teaches classes that I aspire to attending one day, had a blog post in her newsletter about spring greens to forage. Most of them I already knew about, but then she mentions sochan. What the heck it that? And I …
Thoughts on Reading
Some read, some not Last July I mentioned how I tried to zero out my Goodreads Challenge number in an attempt to move my reading away from a consumer capitalist, must read as many books as I can, must be productive mindset. I struggled to lower the number, because, what would people think? I’m a …
Happy 2024!
Hello? Anyone Home? Happy New Year Friends! The best thing about a new year is that there are so many of them. There’s January 1st, of course. But there is also Chinese New Year. There’s Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. There is Samhain (November 1 making Halloween New Year’s Eve), the Celtic New Year. …
