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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Edith Franklin’s Retrospective

    Friday night, we went to the Center for Visual Arts gallery at the Toledo Museum of Art for Edith Franklin’s retrospective show. The place was…

  • Entry for July 21, 2008

    Sky Cheif is the black and white one… Captain is the big red one with the white forehead… others are Whirlwind, Espresso and Charcoal. We…

  • Clayart post: art education

    The carrot-and-stick, measure-and-grade, results-oriented way we teachchildren in all other subjects doesn’t mesh well with the teaching ofart. If anything like a creative voice can…

  • The Eagle Has Landed!

    The ten homeschool moms on my deck had all claimed a pizza crust and topped it with pesto and goat cheese, or olives and veggies,…