Dark Emu is a very dark book. Author Bruce Pascoe clearly lays out the case that pre-contact Australian peoples were highly organized and...

Michelle Obama as the anchor! Samin Nosrat explaining about tomatoes and pasta! Jose Andres making gazpacho! How could one episode of this n...

This month marks the one-year anniversary of the start of the coronavirus lockdown; that is, the moment when many jobs were first lost and w...

While I loved the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, I'm only finishing out the current season of the TV show out of some kind of maso...

“Nearer to the town, the air had a faint taste and smell of smoke; perhaps, after all, more a loss of the fragrance of grass and herbage tha...

Packed lunch with Juice Box (photo from my 2015 visit to our local school lunch hour...

 

From 2015: Let's Celebrate π ! Today [I wrote 6 years ago] is 3/14/15. On that date, I scheduled this post to appear at 9:26 AM. That...

In a parking garage in downtown Ann Arbor is a recently-created mural covering two sides of a concrete divider/structural support. I took th...

"Ah, baguette! Symbol of how we Vietnamese have made French culture our own! For we were good bakers of the baguette, and the banh mi w...

Derivation of the word harbinger : "Middle English from Old French herbergere, from herbergier ‘provide lodging for’, from herbe...

A delicious bread that Len baked: "Sunflower Seed Bread with Pâte Fermentée." This recipe is from Jeffrey Hamelman's book  Bre...

A Man and a Woman At Wine by Gabriël Metsu  -- Source Interior with a Lady at a Spinet and a Gentleman Offering her a Glass of Wine by Metsu...

New mural on the side of Vogel’s Locks. This business was founded in 1913, and recently closed. Painted windows at Downtown Home and Garden,...

All my books by Ishiguro. Nourishment is a key to everything in Kazuo Ishiguro’s just-published novel, Klara and the Sun. However, nourishme...

"Niki, the name we finally gave my younger daughter, is not an abbreviation; it was a compromise I reached with her father. For paradox...

 New photos from an afternoon walk: Much of the ice has melted at Ford Lake. The red-winged blackbirds have just returned from their winter ...