Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson

Recipe Thursday: Pozole con Pollo

I think the last recipe was a Summer stew of some sort, for which I apologize (ish). Both because summer and stew don’t seem like good friends (a point we would obviously argue), and because, well, I already did that — but in my defense, you don’t really want to hear about the millions ofContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Pozole con Pollo”

Tuesday Happenings: Catching up

I am sad to say that there are still flower seedlings waiting to get into the garden. Those poor little potbound babies, looking longingly at the ground. If it’s not raining this Wednesday (our only day closed) I will do my best and get them into flower boxes. Meanwhile, the garden is looking scraggly butContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Catching up”

Musings on a Rainy Monday at my desk

5 Quotes from Books at Hand (a peek at what I do when I’m not at the store): “The post-anthropocentric ethics of expanded obligations becomes a way of taking responsibility, by the human, for various sorts of thickenings of the universe, across different scales, and of responding to the tangled mesh of everyday connections andContinue reading “Musings on a Rainy Monday at my desk”

Special Duendesday issue on a Friday

{life with a curious and crazy officially 13 yr old} My adorable little pea is now a teenager – when did that happen? She is a glorious young person with certainly a mind of her own. She’s kind, she’s ridiculously fashionable and funny, she’s smart and creative. Of course, she is woefully undisciplined (in theContinue reading “Special Duendesday issue on a Friday”

Monday’s Musing

Swallowtails BY ALLAN PETERSON The Emperor thought of his heart as a water wheelflooding the rice fields of all creationand bloodied the water for a better harvest.His warriors hoped for a life with wings.His swallowtails wrote him the same lines—the secret of life is a resurrected worm—He told them eventually time would run backwardsin their hands,Continue reading “Monday’s Musing”

Tuesday Happenings: Crazy Bzzzy!

All of a sudden, all the things are happening. This Summer Solstice is bringing with it a real start to a season! This Friday, June 23rd, we are lucky lucky lucky to have a lovely poetry reading with poets: Audrey Gidman (her first, thoughtfully bound collection from Slate Roof Press, Northfield, MA is gorgeous), megContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Crazy Bzzzy!”