Everything I Ever Learned About Civility I Learned in a Small...
For instruction in civilization, nothing beats a small town.
Norman Maclean and the Question of Craft
"Fear and pity are made out of grammar,” he writes, and in this most particular grammatical unit he finds the fabric of tragedy itself.
The Ties that Stretch and Bind
Many a time, I have seen my friend doting on his little seven-year-old half brother, picking him up from school, cooking for him, and keeping his classmates’ junk food at bay. Staying abroad and settling into some sort of upwardly mobile immigrant comfort would go against the grain of years of habit.
Technique and Food: Why our Local Food System does not Feed...
Here are the local puzzle pieces that we somehow need to fit together: great farms; committed, hard working farmers; a university of world class researchers; a highly participatory local political system; obesity; unemployment; lack of food processing capacity; plentiful fresh food that doesn't reach our plates; farmers going out of business; and fundraisers to buy farmland that people can't farm.
Pedestrian Diarist: Life without Car(s)
I know what Jesus would do: hate the car, love the car driver.
Community & Language
Their language is hopeful and would be recognizable to any tobacco farmer of the last hundred years. But now they are talking about food.
Ray Bradbury Turns 90
Raise a glass of dandelion wine to the dreamy kid from Waukegan, Illinois, who today becomes a nonagenarian. Herewith my appreciation of Bradbury from...
