Today was my last shift at the CSA. Like last year, my last shift ended up with me weeding the flower beds around the veggie stand. I did get to harvest some potatoes, whites and yukon golds. Take-home basket had tomatoes for the first time. Sister Rita said they wouldn’t last due to the rains …
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Animal Sounds
So, while I was at the Glen, Sherry was supposed to go see Guster in Cleveland. That was the plan. But the show got cancelled at the last minute for unknown reasons. But, the good news was that they were playing a show at the Toledo Zoo Ampitheatre last night, Tuesday. Sherry, Pat, a TU …
Glen Day 6: All Good Things
So, here we are a full week after the last day of the Glen, and I still haven’t posted my last official Glen report (or is that “repor”). I could claim that processing the photos from the week took so much out of me that I couldn’t post. I could claim that I forgot. I …
Glen at Home: Bleary Eyed Wonder
Had some delays around Dallas last night. Plane didn’t land until close to 1:00am. Got home around 4:00am. God bless Pat for being with Sherry the whole day so that she wouldn’t be alone in Detroit at night. Of course, it sounds like they had a full day: Tigers-Indians game, IKEA, Max & Erma’s, Miami …
Glen Book List
Books I have purchased at the 2006 Glen Workshop: Out On The Deep Blue: True Stories of Daring, Persistence, and Survival from the Nation’s Most Dangerous Profession, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields The Remarkable Case of Dorothy Sayers by Catherine Kenney The Crime of Living Cautiously by Luci Shaw Early Occult Memory Systems of the …
Glen Day 5: Chopping Block Day
So, yesterday, when I was supposed to be retreating or writing or doing something generally productive with my off day, I spent the entire afternoon tagging books in my LibraryThing collection. We’ve got over 1500 items listed, and most of them arent’ tagged since I chose to import bulk files of ISBN numbers. On the …
St. John’s Disc Golf: Strike 2
Last year when I tried out the St. John’s College disc golf course, I was less than impressed. But, optimist that I am, I packed the discs again this year, and trotted out to the course to try again. Here’s the skinny: Pros: Great scenery Lots of elevation changes I actually found each basket this …
Glen Day 3: Theme, Thumbs, and Thunder
Wow, do we need tomorrow’s day off. When I attended Urbana 90, someone said it was like trying to get a drink out of firehose. Yeah. I woke up late this morning because I stayed up late to finish Joseph Ellis’s His Excellency: George Washington and rushed off to breakfast where I had the pleasure …
Order Sherry’s Latest!
Sherry’s essay “‘Terrors of the Night’: Salvation, Gender, and the Gothic in Go Tell It on the Mountain” is being published in a collection of essays celebrating the 50th anniversary of James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel. The collection is a bit pricey (encourage your library to order it!) but you can now pre-order it at the …
Glen Day 3: Morning Fog
The weather this week has been cool and thundery. Last night, I almost needed a blanket. Click on the above picture to see a full panorama from the balcony of my room. Every morning is shrouded in silent fog; the days end in thunder; sage wafts through the noontime air.
