I think it is important that women and girls get the best possible education. I think it is important that everyone get a good, nutritious diet. Education in a school garden? Good. Education for girls in a school garden? Better. Education that reaches beyond the school, “to provide food and ornament...
Hats off to Birke Baehr. The young man has courage, and convictions, and he displayed both talking to a huge crowd at an independent Ted event in Asheville, North Carolina. 1 So much so that he ended up featured on the mother ship at Ted.com, which is how I came to see his performance.
It was a great performance too. He had clearly rehearsed. He knew his stuff. He engaged with the audience. His graphics were clear. Heck, I have 2 colleagues who could use a lesson from Birke.
You can tell it‘s a quiet day in whatever personal blogosphere you explore when people start talking about the comments they‘ve had or, better yet, the search terms people used to find them. I should know; I‘m guilty. Next in importance, an irrelevance to most readers, is the “I get email” gambit. W...
Some time ago in an American airport a man came up to the man in front of me in a line. He had a packet of white powder in his hand. He showed the man in front of me a very official looking badge (although he wasn’t in uniform or anything) and asked the man to put the bag of white powder in his bac...
A lot of my loaves are raised with natural leavens, rather than store-bought yeast.
There’s a lot one could say about natural yeasts, wild yeasts, sourdough starters, levain, leaven, what have you. I'm not going to say much. You can read elsewhere about how a good natural leaven is a symbiotic m...
