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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Cooking from the bottom of the kitchen

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

One of my sayings is that I can always squeeze one more meal out of an empty kitchen. Today is a squeeze day. It’s Tuesday morning. Starting Friday evening, snow started falling. By Saturday morning, it looked like a blizzard, with 10 to 12 inches of snow on the ground. That night, the low temperature […]

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Simple Saturdays (and other days, too)

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Ken and I had said that we would pull up the drawbridge this winter and limit our exposure to the outside world, partly for our mental health and partly to get more literary labor done. Neither of us was very successful. As the next step, we’re experimenting with “Simple Saturdays.” On Simple Saturdays, the Internet […]

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Another bright spot in North Carolina

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Michael Morgan at our county convention last April Michael R. Morgan, a Democrat, was sworn in today as associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In the November election, Morgan ousted a Republican incumbent on the court, which means that Democrats now have a 4-3 majority on the state supreme court. After the November […]

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One bright spot in the political gloom

Monday, January 2, 2017

Another small reward for my political work here in the sticks was an invitation to the inauguration of Roy Cooper, the new governor of North Carolina. Those of you outside the U.S. may not know that, one bright spot during the catastrophic November election was that North Carolina voters, by a narrow margin, threw out […]

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Woods

Sunday, January 1, 2017

[Click on image for higher resolution] As much as I’d like at times to live in a real wilderness, I can’t. The abbey is in driving distance of a Whole Foods, after all. But I do love the woods. It’s strange, but when you want to look through the woods, winter is the time to […]

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