I spent most of the weekend (except Saturday afternoon when I made jam) at a pottery studio in Stockholm learning to make nerikomi pottery - a traditional Japanese technique using colored clays on mosaic fashion, rather than coloured glazes. I’m pretty pleased with the results!

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The front yard pocket prairie is buzzing today with lots still in bloom, including New England aster, grass-leaved goldenrod, and black-eyed Susan

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A common joke amongst archaeologists is that you constantly meet people think that we dig dinosaurs. So we thought maybe that’s what was causing this stipulation. But nope, it turns out that a large dinosaur skeleton had been found in the area, and it sold for millions of dollars.

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During the height of the early ‘10s South Texas fracking boom, I was leading a CR survey on areas around Goliad and Bee Counties. One common property stipulation was, if we found dinosaurs, we were not allowed to touch them or tell anyone but the landowner. We found this curious and funny. 1/2

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I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2

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