When my great-great-grandfather John Singleton worked at the steel mills in Gary, Indiana, in the winter when my great-grandmother was ten, it snowed and snowed and was overcast every day, and no one saw the ground except in patches from October until April.
On these cold gray days Gramma would go with her Aunt May to [...]
What makes a good cookie? Or, perhaps I should start more objectively–what makes a cookie good?
Cookies look attractive and taste sweet. They are portable–small and not too crumbly, easy to slip into a pocket and smuggle out of a dining hall. A baker needs not bother with a rolling pan or cutting knife; merely a [...]
Rain ruined the hike we planned yesterday, so Eva, Brendan, Ted and I went to Artichoke Annie’s! After working in Heartland Antique Mall for two years, I’m no stranger to this enterprise of material culture. Nevertheless, no antique mall experience can ever replicate another one (contrast that with outlet malls, where the shopping by its [...]
I made this over the weekend using my Canon Vixia and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Learn more about MU law school’s mock trial at the War and Reconciliation website or at The Free Tiger, a new student-run online newsmagazine at Missouri University. Started this year by my good friend Eva Dou, it has already earned positive [...]
I distinctly remember the night of April 23rd, 2008, when visions of presidents danced in my head. I bent over a drawing pad at the kitchen table, driven by a compulsion to make lines into art. Flag stripes, pinstripes, lines of age, determination and hardship:
And now, “the present life:”
Before Barack Obama was rocking the presidency, [...]
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