Author: Calamity Jane
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A Three Legged Stool with a Lot of Buts
Writing is weird. You know how when you wake up from an intense dream, and you are trying to relate it to someone, you find the dream itself changing as you put it into words? Because dreams and words just don’t really fit together. Sometimes writing is like that. You can’t just sit down and…
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Shouting Down the Rabbit Hole
Ever read the awesome book A Hole is to Dig, by Maurice Sendak and someone else I can’t remember? It’s got a great line, “A baby makes the mother and father, otherwise they’re just plain people.” Well, I was thinking, readers make the blog, otherwise it’s just me shouting down the rabbit hole again. So,…
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Submission
My one year anniversary for this blog came and went sometime in September. Looking over Apron Strings with a critical eye, I noticed my sidebar explanation is a bit… overzealous. Written from the vantage point of only one kid. Whilst I aspire to having my daily life be divided among ”digging dirt, tending vegetables, dumpster…
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Righteous Mama Glow
Last night was a big night for me. After listening to Ani DiFranco‘s music for over fifteen years last night I got to see her in concert for the first time. Not just any concert, mind you. A small venue, as in– just a big room with a stage in one corner. And on it,…
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Dairy, Dairy, Everywherey
My fridge is full of such a variety of dairy experiments, I’m thinking of opening a store. I have homemade buttermilk, kefir, yogurt, yogurt cheese, sour cream, two failed batches of mozzerella which turned out like a rubbery queso fresco, an accidental raspberry ricotta-type weirdness, and the resultant whey from all these various products, some…
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