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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 December 16, 2006

    This is a gift for grandma that Molly and I made, with her drawing of Miss Bianca, a wine glass from the dollar store, and…

  • simple is hard.

    Next week is finals week and the last crit of the semester in Diana’s studio– followed, of course, by a pot lock at her house…

  • Weird dream.

    Mid-winter makes me a restless sleeper, and I walk around all day half remembering surreal dreams. Here’s one: I was on a college campus, on…

  • Kiln opening, studio visit: pretty stimulating!

    Last night after class, by the time Patrick and I crossed campus to Diana’s house (and a cold beer, soba noodles and tomatoes with feta) I was so…