Going to argue with conservative family members at Christmas? The Optimists have you covered! Enjoy this special bonus episode where we pass the proverbial potatoes and I hit back on range of economic issues. optimisteconomy.com/episodes/tha...

Two things: 1) Self-checkouts, you’re going to make me do it myself and then stop me like you think i’m a criminal at the door? 2) If the infected on The Last of Us are infected with a fungi, why are they carnivorous?

of course.

Chapter 3 off to co-author!

It has been a hectic and crappy week. I stopped by the county library’s bookmobile on the way home and it totally brightened my day. Not many libraries on the rez so it was pretty great.

For millennia, the Karuk people in Northern California have used fire to actively manage forests. Murphy Woodhouse and Bill Tripp join us to discuss how the tribe is training others in this practice.

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

Great episode of All My Relations

Chapters 1 and 2 off to co-author! I’m wrestling with synthesizing big archaeology for chapter 3 🤔

This semester is like 3 weeks old and I’m exhausted already… and I don’t teach!

I think of this video often. We shouldn’t be fighting the same fight. Waiting for comfort and decorum isn’t the way. Progress happens when you don’t stop.

My mom and I have embarked on a quest. Fifty state quilt blocks designed in the early 1900s. These are my practice blocks for Connecticut (red & white) and Delaware (in progress). I’m not sure I have the stamina for this 😅

I’ve read Clay’s Ark and Survivor both by Octavia Butler since Sunday. It has been so long since I’ve read fiction and an actual real life book with pages and everything! It fell on my face and poked me in the eye when I dozed off… that’s how I remember it was real. 😆

And just like that…poof… rip TikTok - guess I’ll have to read more or something

I’ve never had to work this hard to win over an animal 😆

I walk past this chisel my husband stuck in the wall and I often wonder if it is holding the upstairs together 🙃

I’m writing a book with a friend of mine… it’s due to the press June 30. Ok. I said it out loud (sort of) now if I don’t finish it, you all will know 🙃

Oscar still doesn’t totally trust us.

My dad would have been 86 this month - I wish I could apologize for every winter morning that I woke up in a warm house and took it for granted that he would always be there to chop the wood and build the fire in the dark hours of the early morning. Just missing my Dad a little today

That’s an NTUA truck out there! Might get electricity this year! (if you know me and you know Navajo rez life, you know that was sarcasm 😆)