Pickle Making, the Making of Pickles

It seems like everyone is canning these days. It’s cool, it’s hip.  Now, I’ve never made jelly,* or saved summer vegetables, but I do make pickles… not from cucumbers however, but from these guys:

It turns out that across the Americas, there’s this funny vegetable growing that kind of looks like a pear with a scary […]

Thinking Hat Evolution

I keep making hats. I keep not wanting to pick them up as I walk out the door. Till now?

In the winter, there’s always a pile of more or less guilty handmade hats, chilling by the door. I pick the least evil and run out. Then the next day I try to make another hat, […]