Here in Madison, on Tuesday evening about dinner time, a Black man went into a Capitol Square restaurant with a bullhorn and a baseball bat, saying basically, “I’m here to F**k you up”, and when he got arrested, other protesters got violent and eventually pulled down the Forward statue, and Hans Christian Heg, who was … [Read more…]
It’s kinda hard to know what is happening … Since we live in a country, and a state, with no consistent pandemic policies, stuff’s open, stuff’s closed, a fall spike (or even August) of Covid-19 cases is predicted, and there are lots of headlines now about numbers of sick people going up. Last week, University … [Read more…]
And, start listening to Black people. A while ago, probably at least five years, maybe six, because it was when he was living in Chicago and that was 2013-2017, I bought my son Al the Thug Kitchen Cookbook. I naively, unawarely, no doubt, thought it seemed suited to his sensibilities, as a young, hip, white … [Read more…]
So, I, like lots of other people now, have been having trouble sleeping – although I have not been a good sleeper since menopause, and normally get up every two hours. The problem now is that I often can’t fall back asleep, and when I do I often crash out hard for 15-30 minutes and … [Read more…]
I took off the week of June 1-June 7 for posting my own content, and tried to promote voices of people of color. Today I kept thinking about going back over the week, and doing my normal food related posts, and know what? I’m not going back. Just doesn’t seem to matter right now what … [Read more…]
It was a quite different type of Memorial Day this pandemic year. Normally we have people over for a driveway picnic, and there’s lots of cooking and eating going on. Looks like last year we had our driveway picnic on Sunday, and then had indoor hotdogs on Monday. Sometimes the picnic gets kinda big, 12-15 … [Read more…]
Yesterday I took my knives and the one pair of sewing scissors that I could find to be sharpened. I was sure I had another pair some place, so I brought down the giant Tupperware bin of fabric I had in the attic. I didn’t have time to go all the way through it before … [Read more…]
Cook a lot and eat a lot Walk a lot, and wear a mask when you go in places Think very hard about other creative projects and do them sometimes. Once in awhile get rid of old junk. These ladders belonged to John & Al’s dad, Jeff. I kind of inherited them when … [Read more…]
So many dinners, and meals, and cleaning up – that I’m not taking pictures of – so many walks – that I’m not taking pictures of – so many online meetings – that I do have a few pictures of. Collections of (mostly) old people on zoom. I left off last Saturday when I baked … [Read more…]
This week I’ve been feeling a little more optimistic that we’re going to come out of this thing OK. Different, but OK. I’ve actually seen a new, not exactly meme, but thought that more than one person is expressing, that we don’t want to get back to normal, we want to get back to better. … [Read more…]