Día de los Muertos

October 30, 2011

It was very nearly 15 years ago to the day that I was wandering around in a field near Tlachihualtepetl in Cholula, Puebla with Laura Westra. Tlachihualtepetl is a story in its own right, up there with the Nebra Sky Disc and an obscure reference well worth Googling for those of you who [...]

Eet Smakelijk

October 23, 2011

It’s been a good eight to ten weeks since we had anything to say about tomatoes in the Thornapple blog, and as both regular readers know, tomatoes are not only a personal obsession, they are the driving value behind the entire local food movement in the United States. I won’t speak for Europe [...]

تحتل الشوارع

October 16, 2011

Sometimes my peripatetic ways give me an interesting angle on things. I was overseas a couple of weeks ago and during a few of the inevitable hours I spent in my room at the century-old Rôtes Ross hotel in Halle I explored the 100+ channels available on the television set. Only three were [...]

L'Ete Indienne

October 9, 2011

Had a balky internet server yesterday that kept me from posting on Sunday (as is my wont). Or maybe I should blame it on the balmy weather. Yes, folks, it’s October, but you could hardly tell it from being outdoors. And outdoors is where anyone should be on a Sunday afternoon like yesterday. [...]

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

Oct. 2, 2011

Bored out of my gizzard with icons, I decided to impose a bit more carbon debt on my children, their children and their chlidren’s children (not to mention their grandchildren and their grandchildren) so I could enjoy at least one more beer al fresco before the autumn gets here in earnest. Thinking why [...]