When I wrote this goal down in 2008, I believe I was thinking of canning. I wanted to put up a few jars of jam and pickles, learn to can in the process, and that was about it. Moving to … Continue reading
April 2010: July 2010: September 2012: The raised bed was actually built in Summer 2011 by one of Jo(e)’s sons, but I didn’t document many things that year. The garden’s not done yet, since the wall needs to be built … Continue reading
Delaware has consistently eluded my attempts to get to know the northeast better. Even though it’s not very far away, it’s just not been convenient to any of the places I was actually headed, and I haven’t had a good … Continue reading
So I’ve been making sausage for about six months now, but sort of didn’t get around to telling you. Partly because of busyness, partly because of trial and error, and partly because I never really benchmarked these goals. How much … Continue reading
Why? Because growing up in the mid-south, it was always something far away, up north, elsewhere. It comes up quite a bit in the American cultural consciousness, enough to pop up every few years in movies, TV, books. Especially if … Continue reading
I still haven’t gotten my act together enough with preserves to do jellies or jams, or even to stand over the stove monitoring a pot of apple butter. (Although I did do the latter a few years ago. Once.) My … Continue reading
Like the man says, not knowing how to cook is like not knowing how to fuck. Both are essential to adulthood, and it’s worth knowing how to do some things really well. This recipe is marvelous and amazing, and the … Continue reading
In mid-May, we met my parents in Pigeon Forge, TN for a few days of family time and driving around in Smoky Mountain National Park. It was a great visit, and we look forward to doing this sort of thing … Continue reading
I started subscribing to magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair pretty early on, when I was 13 or so. Before the Internet, in an absence of underground zines, and for someone too young/uneducated to read things like ArtForum, it was … Continue reading
That there’s got Early Girl and Patio hybrids and Black Russian heirloom grape tomatoes. I planted them around 7/15, which means the plants are heavy with green fruit right now. I ripened one on the windowsill last week and that … Continue reading
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
