Thinking Out Loud
Easter Sunday, 2011, at Bottle Tree Farm. I designed the logo yesterday, a snappy flash graphic that also translates nicely as a still. Our first crops are in the ground in the large garden in the back, courtesy of Bob’s new tractor, a neighbor’s plow, and a lot of hard work. The rows are 150 [...]
I went to a conference in Baltimore earlier this week and managed to find an hour to visit a used bookstore. I believe it is a moral duty of all bibliophiles to support home grown store. There’s usually at least one within walking distance of my hotel, and Baltimore was no exception. The Book Escape [...]
We’re still deciding on the “s”…some of it may depend on the availability of domain names. It is a beautiful Sunday morning at the farm and I was checking in on my online classes so, since I’m tethered, I thought I’d do a quick farm update. This weekend was all about the chickens. We had [...]
I finished Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Loewen. I read the first edition, published in 1995. I was particularly taken with his description of the more recent past and how poorly books address it: that “recent past” in 1995 was my own childhood: Vietnam, the energy [...]
Despite the busy-ness of March, I have been reading and listening to books. I enjoyed another Flavia de Luce mystery, A Red Herring Without Mustard, read by Jayne Entwhistle. Fluff but the chemistry and culture keep me coming back. As for reading, I made it through Outlander although I’ll admit to skimming the last 75 [...]
Tim’s thoughtful Assorted Stuff blog post about textbooks coincided with my reading of Blood: Stories of Life and Death from the Civil War, an anthology of mostly primary source documents. While it didn’t offer specific dates and times like a textbook would, it provided a human view of the time and, as Tim pointed out, [...]