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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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  • ow

    ok so i went and screwed myself up good tonight… carrying a board with pots and supper through our tight packed-with-grad-students, profs, pots and equipment…

  • letter to mel (a clayart post)

    mel wrote: (on clayart, the ceramics listserver) “the acts of throwing, slab building and a thousand othertasks in ceramics…..are not art, metaphor, smarty pants…they are…

  • Sylvania Art Fair SUNDAY!

    I’ll be selling pots this weekend, at the Sylvania Art Fair.  This year’s fair has apparently been upscaled, is juried, and has been moved to…

  • I promised the kids…

    …that I would put this poem on my blog. We composed it together around the fire. Pardon a couple of inside jokes that won’t make…