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…
If I had a dime for every time somebody said sarcastically, “you sure picked a nice day to fire”, I’d be rich. I had asked…
This was one of my early ewers, still looking very thrown-and-assembled. It’s not a look I have pursued further, but the glaze and salt saved…
From the salt kiln also…
I always wake up hungry. I could drive to McDonalds and have a bag of breakfast, tossed out a window by anonymous hands into my…