Tabula Rasa
I’ve never been a good speller. My mother says it’s because I’m lazy and deceitful. Maybe she was talking about something else. I bring this up today because I initially misspelled tabula rasa as tabla rasa. Instead of Latin for “blank...Jimsonweed
In an undoubtedly futile effort to instill a love of reading in the boarders we read to them every night. We are not slavishly devoted to the canon, so have read a Calvin and Hobbes anthology… more than once. Currently the eldest and I are enjoying the Series...Sitting on the dock and siphoning.
This was before my time, but I’m told that my mother’s family spent a part of the summer on a salt water inlet in Rudailand. Oddly, my mother was an avid water skier and trusted her father to drag her about the water skittering around blind corners. These...Fertilization blues
Until last year I avoided growing corn. I can buy it at nearly any farm for next to nothing and even though it’s not quite as fresh as garden corn, it tastes better than the week old stuff (if you’re lucky) at the big grocery stores. But last year I...E-Edition
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