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Friday Favorites: Recent Audiobooks

A quick list of audiobooks I’ve enjoyed over the last several months: The Vegetarian and Human Acts by Han Kang. Both of these were a tough listen for different reasons, but I’m glad I had to really slow down and pay attention to the way that Kang develops her characters. Even in translation, Kang’s layeringContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Recent Audiobooks”

Operation Baguette: Harvest Time!

Now to figure out how to thresh it: mortar and pestle? Wrapping it in a tarp and backing over it with my car a couple of times? The trials and tribulations of the urban wheat farmer 😉 I will tell you, though, even cutting my tiny “field” was a decent amount of work. Mad respectContinue reading “Operation Baguette: Harvest Time!”

Comfort Kits and Go Bags

It’s wildfire season, y’all! And you know what that means: it’s go (bag) time. With the frequency and intensity of climate-change-related disasters increasing, nearly all of us are at some risk of having to evacuate due to a hurricane, wildfire, or flood–which means we should all have “go bags” stocked and ready to grab atContinue reading “Comfort Kits and Go Bags”

Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat

I’ve been watching Dear Hongrang on Netflix, and since it’s a costume drama, there are a lot of beautiful hanbok, hair pins, etc. But I swear the hats are like their own characters, they get so many close-ups in this drama. That started me wondering what they’re made of and how they’re made. And thenContinue reading “Making 갓 (Gat): Traditional Korean Scholar’s Hat”

Letter of Recommendation: Fabric Stores

Much like feed stores, fabric stores are one of those pre-Internet gathering places where our social life in this country used to be knitted together (har har). There aren’t so many of them now: that gorgeous Lucky Jeans Brand bandana-print Lycell denim fabric up there (all 9 yards of it!)–part of Joann Fabrics’s going-out-of-business saleContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Fabric Stores”

ESC #37 and #38 ft. Exploding Xurros!

I mean, it was high time for Experimental Supper Club to have a spectacular failure, amiright? The good news is no one got hurt. The bad news is it took me the better part of a day to wash my kitchen down from ceiling to floor (including the dogs). We had a vaguely Spanish/Portuguese themeContinue reading “ESC #37 and #38 ft. Exploding Xurros!”