Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera had trouble holding still. Prue Leith is here to judge your baked goods. Happy Halloween!

Our house’s previous owner loved nothing more than (1) boxwoods and (2) grass. It’s going to take years to make the yard look like I imagine, so in the meantime, I mow. But maybe it’ll be the last time this season?!

Jo Harkin’s The Pretender is the best book I’ve read this year. Go buy or borrow a copy for yourself.

@drfarls.bsky.social just a heads up—getting extra weird/scammy redirects from the blog this afternoon to this site.

Trying out Fable instead of Goodreads to divest from Amazon a bit more. You should follow me!

Thanks for the tickets, @wnrnradio.bsky.social! Wonderful night on the Island for Modest Mouse and the Flaming Lips!

It is fried green tomato season, and therefore time for fried tomato and pimento cheese BLTs.

My helper snoozes while I grade and then takes the sun!

#NoKingsDay live from Lynchburg.

Coco provided essential oversight while I mowed the grass today, and now she’s pooped.

Hi folks! I’m an ed researcher and teacher educator; before that, I was a middle/high school teacher. I study embodiment in the classroom, virtual teaching and learning, and teachers’ unions. I’m from WV but live and work at a SLAC in central Virginia.

Here’s my sidekick Coco. She studies borking.

Meanwhile, Zuckerberg insists that speech on Facebook is freer than ever, and Nazis proliferate. If you would like to discuss the problems with trusting billionaires to manage our public sphere, using AI to police (and mine) speech, or the damage we’re doing to our democracy, I would love to talk.