Brick: Muse on News by Ben S. Pollock
- Full Casserole on a Sheet
One rule my wife and I have picked up for pot-luck suppers in our whole-food plant-based decade is “bring an entree.” We vegans seem to live on sides and salads, but in a communal room with a table of platters, we look around and ask, “where’s the main dish for us?” We quickly figured out… Read more: Full Casserole on a Sheet - It’s Past Time to Woke Up and Smell the Coffee
Is the Guv Limiting Campus Speech? An Editor’s Note Maybe it’s my middle age or that my decades as an editor have locked in 20th-century grammar, but I have to be overly conscientious to use preferred pronouns in conversation and even email. Confession: I fail at this about 10 percent of the time and have… Read more: It’s Past Time to Woke Up and Smell the Coffee - Reason 542 to Join Local 965 of AEA/NEA
An Editor’s Note Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last spring signed into law Arkansas Act 542 of 2023, the Given Name Act. Its full title is “An Act to Create the Given Name Act; to Protect Faculty Members, Teachers, and Employees of Public Schools and State-supported Institutions of Higher Education from Compelled Speech; to Prohibit Requiring… Read more: Reason 542 to Join Local 965 of AEA/NEA - A Clickbait Strike Lifts All of Us
It’s Science: A Rising Tide Would Lift All Boats An Editor’s Note This could be our year. The next months could see unions that support public educators and support staff, indeed the unions for all varieties of workers, return to proportionate prominence. This is because of the Hollywood strikes. All unions due to the walkout… Read more: A Clickbait Strike Lifts All of Us - Allen, Texas, of the 1980s Was a TV Show
Editor’s Note — wait, the writer is the editor: Each time I cleaned some syntax, another mass shooting or three were reported, and the shore moved even quicker from my drifting dinghy*. Time for a final update, publish and move on.*“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” —… Read more: Allen, Texas, of the 1980s Was a TV Show - Root for the Phightin’ Phoenices to Roost in Arkansas
DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — We, the Campus Welcoming Committee of the University of Arkansas System, would like to extend a hand or rather wing to our newest school, the University of Phoenix. As the UA System Board of Trustees has not yet voted on the adoption of this virtual campus, we might seem hasty. But this… Read more: Root for the Phightin’ Phoenices to Roost in Arkansas
Food Columns
Candidly, the recipes are posted for my convenience, from which to refer via iPad in the kitchen. All are vegetarian, nearly all vegan, aka plant-based whole-food PBWF and, especially the recent ones, low to no oil. I’m sure you’d like them, too.
- Full Casserole on a Sheet
One rule my wife and I have picked up for pot-luck suppers in our whole-food plant-based decade is “bring an entree.” We vegans seem to live on sides and salads, but in a communal room with a table of platters,… Read more: Full Casserole on a Sheet - Beaver Town Inn Blue-Ribbon Muffins
My Beloved and I were in our early 40s, married almost 5 years in late 1997. We had grown weary of our string of jobs, finance-data-training for her, newspaper editing for me. Let’s buy a bed-and-breakfast, we dreamed. No, let’s… Read more: Beaver Town Inn Blue-Ribbon Muffins - Just So Omelet
Just So Omelet is a story about eggs and flatbreads. Just So Stories was a collection for children by Rudyard Kipling. Rather than illuminate biology for children with facts, his were fanciful tales about, for example, how the elephant got… Read more: Just So Omelet - Run a Tab on Tabbouleh
It was in the afternoon break between Yom Kippur services the other day when my stomach growled for tabbouleh after sundown. I usually hit a market on the way home for items to donate to a shelter (my congregation traditionally… Read more: Run a Tab on Tabbouleh
