Concentrated awesome

Yep, it’s pretty cool. I invite everyone to go check out this page and listen to the awesome recording. The words are mine, but that gorgeous, silky voice you hear belongs to the fabulous SilverInkblot, of the Elocutionists group. Their snazzy, snazzy thing is doing these awesome spoken-word renditions of literature…. Continue reading

Christmas Pierogi

Aren’t they pretty? This is my potato batch, and they’re not cooked, yet. I made about four dozen of these and about four dozen sauerkraut. It was a two-day event, because I am slow at pierogi-making. Anyway, they went over rather well at the end-of-semester, ostensibly-holiday-but-actually-just-food party I made them… Continue reading

Me and In the Shadow of the Mountains

Time for another dorky, self-congratulatory photopalooza. Obviously, I love ebooks, but paperbacks just smell better. I like the heft to them. Anyway, it’s totally tradition, now. So, once again, I present myself, a book, and a hat. So first I was like “VANNA HANDS”… And then I was like “That… Continue reading

Me and The Wailing!

So here is my dorky, self-congratulatory photopalooza. You know, because that’s what I do.  So, first I was like… And then I was like… And then I went… And then something went wrong…   In case anyone was wondering (which no one was), yes, the sweater has reinforced elbows. I… Continue reading

The Living Past

2 October, 1835, the Texas Revolution began at Gonzales, Texas. Several years earlier, the Mexican government had granted the town a cannon for protection against the Comanche raids that were common in that region. In 1835, however, after a revolt orchestrated by several other Mexican states, Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea,… Continue reading