Dana
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It turns out that if you don’t mind the car beeping at you all the way home because the hatch window is open the mommobile can haul 12’ boards.
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It turns out that if you don’t mind the car beeping at you all the way home because the hatch window is open the mommobile can haul 12’ boards.
Grading. Bleh.
I have run out of ways to say “this is a perfectly adequate but not particularly exciting paper.”
Time for a lunch break. Or to completely rewrite my assignments and prompts. One or the other. Sigh.
I have run out of ways to say “this is a perfectly adequate but not particularly exciting paper.”
Time for a lunch break. Or to completely rewrite my assignments and prompts. One or the other. Sigh.
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Grading. Bleh.
I have run out of ways to say “this is a perfectly adequate but not particularly exciting paper.”
Time for a lunch break. Or to completely rewrite my assignments and prompts. One or the other. Sigh.
I have run out of ways to say “this is a perfectly adequate but not particularly exciting paper.”
Time for a lunch break. Or to completely rewrite my assignments and prompts. One or the other. Sigh.
I used the “Alien Princess” blend from @fridaytea.com along with chopped pistachios for the topping on my mom’s birthday dessert.
It was just the right note of floral without being overwhelming.
It was just the right note of floral without being overwhelming.
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I used the “Alien Princess” blend from @fridaytea.com along with chopped pistachios for the topping on my mom’s birthday dessert.
It was just the right note of floral without being overwhelming.
It was just the right note of floral without being overwhelming.
Fire drill in the middle of class conversation about the argument that experiential knowledge is superior enough to communicated knowledge to justify the existence of natural evil.
I tried to tie it in, but viewing getting a few minutes outside on a gorgeous fall day as evil was a hard sell.
I tried to tie it in, but viewing getting a few minutes outside on a gorgeous fall day as evil was a hard sell.
September 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fire drill in the middle of class conversation about the argument that experiential knowledge is superior enough to communicated knowledge to justify the existence of natural evil.
I tried to tie it in, but viewing getting a few minutes outside on a gorgeous fall day as evil was a hard sell.
I tried to tie it in, but viewing getting a few minutes outside on a gorgeous fall day as evil was a hard sell.
Getting a dorm kitchen crate ready for move in. Started with a milk crate, 3D printed a dish rack and mini-crate for utensils, and just added hooks for cups.
August 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Getting a dorm kitchen crate ready for move in. Started with a milk crate, 3D printed a dish rack and mini-crate for utensils, and just added hooks for cups.
Sour cherry chicken salad.
July 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Sour cherry chicken salad.
Unplanned sour cherry usage.
July 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Unplanned sour cherry usage.
Sour cherry burger with blue cheese. Bob bought the good blue cheese instead of the cheap stuff. It was a little too strong and overwhelmed the cherries and jalapeño in the burger. Tasty, though.
July 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Sour cherry burger with blue cheese. Bob bought the good blue cheese instead of the cheap stuff. It was a little too strong and overwhelmed the cherries and jalapeño in the burger. Tasty, though.
Sour cherry rice pudding looks like refried beans, which is disconcerting.
Also sour cherry juice is apparently acidic enough to curdle milk, which means the texture was not as creamy as I would have liked, but also that tomorrow there will be sour cherry paneer. Or ricotta. Or both!
Also sour cherry juice is apparently acidic enough to curdle milk, which means the texture was not as creamy as I would have liked, but also that tomorrow there will be sour cherry paneer. Or ricotta. Or both!
July 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Sour cherry rice pudding looks like refried beans, which is disconcerting.
Also sour cherry juice is apparently acidic enough to curdle milk, which means the texture was not as creamy as I would have liked, but also that tomorrow there will be sour cherry paneer. Or ricotta. Or both!
Also sour cherry juice is apparently acidic enough to curdle milk, which means the texture was not as creamy as I would have liked, but also that tomorrow there will be sour cherry paneer. Or ricotta. Or both!
Sour cherry and goat cheese focaccia.
July 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Sour cherry and goat cheese focaccia.
Sour cherry and tomato panzanella!
This was good. The big bursts of sour cherry were a little disconcerting. I think next time I will blitz them into the dressing instead of leaving them whole.
This was good. The big bursts of sour cherry were a little disconcerting. I think next time I will blitz them into the dressing instead of leaving them whole.
July 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Sour cherry and tomato panzanella!
This was good. The big bursts of sour cherry were a little disconcerting. I think next time I will blitz them into the dressing instead of leaving them whole.
This was good. The big bursts of sour cherry were a little disconcerting. I think next time I will blitz them into the dressing instead of leaving them whole.
It’s sour cherry season and that means there’s going to be a lot of sour cherry silliness on this account because we’re looking at maybe 50 lbs from our two trees and I don’t particularly like cherry pie.
July 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It’s sour cherry season and that means there’s going to be a lot of sour cherry silliness on this account because we’re looking at maybe 50 lbs from our two trees and I don’t particularly like cherry pie.
Last day of camp, I went down to pack up the craft lodge before the campers were up. Apparently the seagulls party before the beach is open.
July 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Last day of camp, I went down to pack up the craft lodge before the campers were up. Apparently the seagulls party before the beach is open.
Test run of a new craft for Books & Crafts camp. I 3D printed the frames and backs, we’ll gather and dry flowers and stuff (I also 3D printed microwave flower presses) and top off with resin. (Which I overfilled on these. Oops.
Thanks for the 3D printer inspiration @mostlybree.kitrocha.com!
Thanks for the 3D printer inspiration @mostlybree.kitrocha.com!
June 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Test run of a new craft for Books & Crafts camp. I 3D printed the frames and backs, we’ll gather and dry flowers and stuff (I also 3D printed microwave flower presses) and top off with resin. (Which I overfilled on these. Oops.
Thanks for the 3D printer inspiration @mostlybree.kitrocha.com!
Thanks for the 3D printer inspiration @mostlybree.kitrocha.com!
Started to cut up a melon for dinner last night but it was overripe. So I scooped it out and froze the pulp. Threw it in a blender just now and made a slushie.
It was delicious. No one else wanted any. I have now consumed an entire overripe cantaloupe. Can’t see how this could go wrong.
It was delicious. No one else wanted any. I have now consumed an entire overripe cantaloupe. Can’t see how this could go wrong.
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Started to cut up a melon for dinner last night but it was overripe. So I scooped it out and froze the pulp. Threw it in a blender just now and made a slushie.
It was delicious. No one else wanted any. I have now consumed an entire overripe cantaloupe. Can’t see how this could go wrong.
It was delicious. No one else wanted any. I have now consumed an entire overripe cantaloupe. Can’t see how this could go wrong.
No, I really don’t want my 100-level class that fulfills a GE requirement for first-years that you somehow managed to miss for four years be the thing that keeps you from graduating . . .
. . . but . . . you did none of the work!
. . . but . . . you did none of the work!
May 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
No, I really don’t want my 100-level class that fulfills a GE requirement for first-years that you somehow managed to miss for four years be the thing that keeps you from graduating . . .
. . . but . . . you did none of the work!
. . . but . . . you did none of the work!
A software update has made it so that links to ebooks in the college library no longer go to the page that they did when I created the link. Unfortunately the link for today’s reading did go to the beginning of a chapter, just not the right chapter.
May 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A software update has made it so that links to ebooks in the college library no longer go to the page that they did when I created the link. Unfortunately the link for today’s reading did go to the beginning of a chapter, just not the right chapter.
Student writing conferences today. I’m considering just outright banning the phrase “throughout history.”
April 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Student writing conferences today. I’m considering just outright banning the phrase “throughout history.”
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Final exam day for my J-term theodicy class. They’ve been a great class working with hard material for a 4 week intensive semester, so I put all the content bits in the take home essay and when they got to class gave them a project to create the best of all possible worlds.
January 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Final exam day for my J-term theodicy class. They’ve been a great class working with hard material for a 4 week intensive semester, so I put all the content bits in the take home essay and when they got to class gave them a project to create the best of all possible worlds.
Finally had our postponed extended family Christmas dinner. I take no blame for the sloppy arrangement of the pork slices.
January 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Finally had our postponed extended family Christmas dinner. I take no blame for the sloppy arrangement of the pork slices.
Week after Christmas Chocolate Fondue:
Pour warm cream over chocolate chips
Peel banana
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Pour warm cream over chocolate chips
Peel banana
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December 28, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Week after Christmas Chocolate Fondue:
Pour warm cream over chocolate chips
Peel banana
Follow me for more festive holiday recipes!
Pour warm cream over chocolate chips
Peel banana
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Eldest had his first job interview on Tuesday, was offered the job yesterday, and today got the acceptance letter from his first choice college. It’s been an exciting week.
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 AM
Eldest had his first job interview on Tuesday, was offered the job yesterday, and today got the acceptance letter from his first choice college. It’s been an exciting week.
🧵My saffron story:
Last Lent I was co-leading a study series we titled “Spice Up Your Lent” with each week themed around a herb or spice in the Bible. We talked about the botanical and culinary history, tasted the spice plain and in recipes and studied the passage it occurred in.
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Last Lent I was co-leading a study series we titled “Spice Up Your Lent” with each week themed around a herb or spice in the Bible. We talked about the botanical and culinary history, tasted the spice plain and in recipes and studied the passage it occurred in.
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November 29, 2024 at 9:53 PM
🧵My saffron story:
Last Lent I was co-leading a study series we titled “Spice Up Your Lent” with each week themed around a herb or spice in the Bible. We talked about the botanical and culinary history, tasted the spice plain and in recipes and studied the passage it occurred in.
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Last Lent I was co-leading a study series we titled “Spice Up Your Lent” with each week themed around a herb or spice in the Bible. We talked about the botanical and culinary history, tasted the spice plain and in recipes and studied the passage it occurred in.
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