Kelly McCallum’s works play with that macabre moment we culturally choose to avoid, when the stillness of death is turning into movement, when decay turns into new life. McCullum is a goldsmith, who creates wearable jewelry and sculptural pieces, which will be on exhibit in “Telling Tales” at the Vi ...
Basidiomycetes Agarics (Gilled Mushrooms) Mushrooms with flat, radiating bladelike projections under the cap; usually with a stipe (stalk) attached to the cap, either centrally, off-centered, or laterally; terrestrial, lignicolous, a few parasitic. Boletes Fleshy mushrooms with tubes rather than gil ...
One of the surest signs of my peasant ancestry is my absolute love of stews. Call it what you will - cassoulet, ragout, chunky soups, potroasts; chuck it all in one pan and slow cook it till all the flavours have melded, the juice is viscous and the individual ingredients are on the verge of total d ...
I’m almost back to normal. I no longer eat a snail’s pace savoring each individual bite. I now speak with my usual cadence and volume. I haven’t caught myself standing still as a statue simply to take in the all the sights, the smells and sounds in the moment. And, it’s been a week now since I have ...
[please note, for those of you who follow this on the daily, i have filled in the once absent posts from the 13th to the 17th!] 1. novelty of rain in mid-june laughing with wet arms and spotted shirts 2. tiny red poppy blooming in front porch flower box i grew this 3. in for a ride on the sugarwagon ...
THIS EVERY OTHER WEEK’S SELECTION: THE CURE, DISINTEGRATION “Disintegration was the best album ever!” -Kyle Broflovski Okay, now that the Lakers have been crowned Champions, it’s time to start moving this ol’ blog in a different direction. We are, as ever, open to suggestions. Beerosaurus struck fir ...
Justin Vaïsse from the Brookings Institution analyses in a new article the implications of the economic crisis for the European Union. He consecutively renounces ideas about the surge of nationalism and populism, the death of the internal market, the disintegration of the eurozone, a new iron curtai ...