C. McGuinn Freeman
@cmf406.bsky.social
She/Her. PhD. Author of Place Last Seen. Published in Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, Dark Mountain, Best American Food Writing, Terrain. Newsletter: Getting Dirty: Material Entanglements in the Anthropocene (https://getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/)
My grandmother's Aunt Marie (known as "The Duchess") in her uniform as a WW1 ambulance driver. Her parents had just died on the Lusitania, and she drove newly-built ambulances from Chicago to the East Coast to be shipped out. The uniform is now in the Chicago History Museum.
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My grandmother's Aunt Marie (known as "The Duchess") in her uniform as a WW1 ambulance driver. Her parents had just died on the Lusitania, and she drove newly-built ambulances from Chicago to the East Coast to be shipped out. The uniform is now in the Chicago History Museum.
So, this just happened! We've been outside for like 2 hours watching.
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
So, this just happened! We've been outside for like 2 hours watching.
This riff from the Preface to The Nasty Bits has lived on my writer corkboard for years:
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This riff from the Preface to The Nasty Bits has lived on my writer corkboard for years:
Our best guess at what the Arby's steak nuggets serving size actually looks like:
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Our best guess at what the Arby's steak nuggets serving size actually looks like:
Will def go order your book! I live just north of Yellowstone, and here's a recent piece I wrote about Baptiste Morizot and these 3 grizzlies who showed up at our place. buttondown.com/CharlotteMFr...
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Will def go order your book! I live just north of Yellowstone, and here's a recent piece I wrote about Baptiste Morizot and these 3 grizzlies who showed up at our place. buttondown.com/CharlotteMFr...
Hank is an elderly 80lb lunk now, but his baby picture always cheers me up:
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Hank is an elderly 80lb lunk now, but his baby picture always cheers me up:
Luigi's prison barbers have been doing him right:
October 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Luigi's prison barbers have been doing him right:
Also, sugar beets are not anything like regular beets. They're the size of your head for one thing.
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Also, sugar beets are not anything like regular beets. They're the size of your head for one thing.
From the udub reddit sub: www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
From the udub reddit sub: www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...
Everything is a lot right now but I used up the pie crust offcuts I've been saving, and the roasted backyard plums I made the other day, and made a crumble topping and it is very tasty.
September 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Everything is a lot right now but I used up the pie crust offcuts I've been saving, and the roasted backyard plums I made the other day, and made a crumble topping and it is very tasty.
It's a Saturday again this time, 23 years since the Assistant Coroner walked through my front gate to tell me why you hadn't been answering my calls all day. Miss you brother. Sorry I didn't get you a headstone but I'm writing you a book instead.
September 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It's a Saturday again this time, 23 years since the Assistant Coroner walked through my front gate to tell me why you hadn't been answering my calls all day. Miss you brother. Sorry I didn't get you a headstone but I'm writing you a book instead.
He was very very sweet and very very dumb.
September 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
He was very very sweet and very very dumb.
Unrepentant, needed an assist with the towel under his torso to stand up, covered in burrs.
September 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Unrepentant, needed an assist with the towel under his torso to stand up, covered in burrs.
Hank says SOLIDARITY because the brush is an instrument of torture that tears your soul right out of your being!
September 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Hank says SOLIDARITY because the brush is an instrument of torture that tears your soul right out of your being!
Oh of course she was! Like my great-great-aunt "The Duchess" shown here in her WW1 ambulance driver outfit.
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Oh of course she was! Like my great-great-aunt "The Duchess" shown here in her WW1 ambulance driver outfit.
Well these came out nice...
September 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Well these came out nice...
I guess I'm eating pears with my yogurt all winter (this is the 2nd batch).
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I guess I'm eating pears with my yogurt all winter (this is the 2nd batch).
My grandmother's aunt, known as "The Duchess" who later in life wore bespoke men's suits with skirts and brogues, ran a settlement house, and would call the OG Mayor Daley and say "It's me." Here she is, young, on our farm, fixing her own Model A (T?) in big Edwardian sleeves/shirtwaist:
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My grandmother's aunt, known as "The Duchess" who later in life wore bespoke men's suits with skirts and brogues, ran a settlement house, and would call the OG Mayor Daley and say "It's me." Here she is, young, on our farm, fixing her own Model A (T?) in big Edwardian sleeves/shirtwaist:
Caught on the game cam SIX minutes before Chuck drove out the driveway. They must have scampered by while he was loading the car.
September 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Caught on the game cam SIX minutes before Chuck drove out the driveway. They must have scampered by while he was loading the car.
Just looked up and this was happening
September 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Just looked up and this was happening
These lovely beasts came to visit us a couple of weeks back. Hung around for about a week.
September 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
These lovely beasts came to visit us a couple of weeks back. Hung around for about a week.
As a person who had these three in my yard last week, nope nope nope.
September 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
As a person who had these three in my yard last week, nope nope nope.
When I wrote about having grizzly bears in the yard, I meant, In The Yard (himself drove out 6 minutes after this photo, and never even saw them that time).
September 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
When I wrote about having grizzly bears in the yard, I meant, In The Yard (himself drove out 6 minutes after this photo, and never even saw them that time).
Since our fugitive grizzly bears have broken Facebook containment, here's the piece I wrote 2 weeks ago about seeing 3 apex predators in the yard. Oh, and Baptiste Morizot and sandhill cranes too. getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2025/09/07/o...
September 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Since our fugitive grizzly bears have broken Facebook containment, here's the piece I wrote 2 weeks ago about seeing 3 apex predators in the yard. Oh, and Baptiste Morizot and sandhill cranes too. getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2025/09/07/o...