Tag: home
And Then Came the Chickens, Part Two: A Dispatch from...
“Bawk-bawk be-gehk!” she cries, and I know just where she’s coming from.
And Then Came The Chickens—After the Bobcat: A Dispatch
Heaven favored me with three successive clement weekends.
A Place Called Home – Even When You’re Young
Since posting "A Place Called Home" we have learned of the passing of Otto Warmbier. Just as home is the place where absence is...
Two Last Suppers and Ordinary Greatness: A Double Eulogy
What are the compensations on the downhill side of life?
A Space for Children in the Home
“If children do not have space to release a tremendous amount of energy when they need to, they will drive themselves and everybody else...
The Land of Storybooks
At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.
Now,...
Oneself as Another in the Controlled Burn: A Dispatch
Low flames and smoke and visions of the eschaton.
A Little Home Cooking
Richmond, VA
I do not think it outrageous, every now and then, to despair for the future of cooking in this country. Not all the...
Something’s Fishy–But Not Very–At Dinnertime
Ingham County, MI
As darkness falls upon what a friend of mine charitably calls “Jack-Ass Acres,” and as the promise of rain comes with the...