Trip to Chicago: Vivian Maier Exhibit
Last week I went to Chicago, where I grew up, to visit my grandmother for her 100th birthday. I had some free time and had seen the links posted in the last few weeks to the story of Vivian Maier, so I decided to go downtown and check out the exhibition. Although I love living [...]
CookbookSlut vs. the Economy
My new CookBookSlut column is up over at Bookslut — I take on cooking and urban homesteading as one approach to the continuing implosion of the economy and the unabating high unemployment rate. I mean, if we’re not going to have jobs anymore, we’d better learn to grow our own and cook our own and [...]
Hare with the Amber Eyes
This year, after many years shying away from such things, I subscribed to a lot of literary magazines including the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books. Maybe it’s just that they all sent me seductive introductory offers, maybe it’s that I now have a partner who [...]
New Year, New Blog
Although I don’t anticipate the demise of LivingSmall any time soon, for some time now, I’ve been finding that venue confining. While sustainability will continue to be an ongoing concern, it’s only part of a larger discussion I’d like to begin about how we can interrogate the conventional narratives that are driving our political and [...]
