I watched a friend deftly navigate the sticky waters of Holier Than Thou last night. He quietly and patiently smiled (beamed, really) as he listened to the Lesson to be Learned, and congratulated people for Figuring It Out. I was too tired to pretend to be...
I've been sneaking off to Seattle University every two months to engage in a Critical Race Theory reading group sponsored by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. The group has consistently had the same two law students from SU and a Dental student from UW, and then has had a smattering...
I study money. Well, i study what money does - capital, accumulation by dispossession, insert-buzz-term, insert-buzz-term. No, it's is not always money "in the last instance" (as Katharyne Mitchell always asks) - but it is often somewhere in the intersection of it all. And this...
Pattern from Lotta Jansdotter’s Simple Sewing – and, yes, that’s a reversible apron – one side to get dirty, one to look lovely when the guests arrive. This took about eight hours over two days - well, exhausted evenings when i needed to do something besides think. ...
[caption id="attachment_243" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Block o' soap"][/caption] Katie and i made soap last year for Christmas presents. They turned out beautifully, even with the many snafus that we had. The biggest being that our instructions said to stir slowly until "trace." After an hour, our idea...