Dining with the Dead
[A slightly edited version of a piece I originally published on October 31st, 2015] Every year of the fifteen I lived in Mexico I enjoyed seeing graves decorated with flowers,…
Read more“Since Time Out of Mind.” Asserting Woodland Rights in an English Village
Every year on May 29th, Oak Apple Day, the people of Great Wishford, a village of about 250 inhabitants in the southern county of Wiltshire in England, reassert their rights…
Read moreCooking in a Bedsitter
I learned to cook in a ‘bedsit.’ A bedsit, as bedsitters were generally called, was the English equivalent of an American efficiency apartment. Well, kind of an equivalent. Although bedsits…
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