Month: July 2017

  • It’s not a supervillain, it’s a sock.

    So I am trying to get Archibald ready to go to the pool, and it’s taken me ages to find his rain trousers (because it started raining, of course). Then...

  • Unexpected spreads

    By which I mean neither awful sandwich smears nor sprawling midriffs. This afternoon's beach walk confirmed my suspicion that last year's spring floods, which deposited quite a bit of sediments...

  • Monsoon effects

    This is a recovered post, originally from 2012-07-10 The monsoon here in Nepal has been late in arriving, and not too convincing on arrival. Some valleys are still parched; seasonal...

  • The yam question

    This is post recovered from 2010, when we were staying in Florida and working with Bron Taylor and Rick Stepp on a special issue of Religion, Nature and Culture on...

  • Awkward moments

    (This is a repost of a posting originally made in August 2013, lost when the server was hacked. The repost was requested by James Sharrock.) Most readers here know that...