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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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  • Entry for February 19, 2008

    I just drove to EMU on my “night off” for a meeting in the gallery. The gallery director gave us a packet of forms and…

  • Empty Bowls was a big success!

    The kids — along with raffled pots — made $1200 for the Northwest Ohio Food Bank at the First Unitarian Church soup fundraiser. It was…

  • Veronica’s footring

    I love how kids’ minds work. I brought a bowl of dry alphabet noodles so the kids (all ages) could sign their bowls by pressing…

  • I got a scanner!

    This is the etching I did in printmaking last semester. I’m having a blast scanning stuff. I’ve never had one of these before!