A Gardening Piece at The University Bookman
My dad received The University Bookman while I was growing up, so I was especially pleased to see one of my pieces appear here today.
Gardening
The Hemispheres in the Garden
I lost a lot of money in the 2008-2009 crisis. I was doing alright but lawyers throughout Michigan were shuttering their practices. I knew it could become difficult to sustain my homemaker wife and seven young children.
An acquaintance asked me if I’d ever tried square-foot gardening. I hadn’
Encourage Urban Gardening
I have a client in Detroit who keeps a small stash of money at his son's house, along with a few guns, on the west side of Michigan, in a rural farming community.
The reason?
"When things collapse and Detroit erupts, I'll boogie out and
Why Gardening Matters
Hemispheres in the Garden
The left hemisphere plans, incidentally. The right hemisphere flows.
Carol Deppe draws an autobiographical distinction in The Tao of Vegetable Gardening between "Planning Carol" and "Doing Carol." PC lays out elaborate plans that DC later disregards as she gardens. I can relate . . . big-time. Deppe's
The Utopian Gardener: An Autobiographical Incident
Rational ideas create hell on earth. Just ask a kulak. Or just ask the lettuce plants in my garden.
I had a great gardening idea a few years ago. I called it “wild gardening.” The idea was simple and based on U.S. foreign policy over the past 75 years.
How to be a Good Agrarian
I hung out with Michael Jordan outside Chicago about twenty years ago.
No, not basketball Michael Jordan. I'm talking about Michael Jordan, the English professor from Hillsdale College.
We met at a Touchstone conference at Mundelein Seminary. He saw my name tag and said he enjoyed my articles.
Taoing Around in the Garden
There's a great gardening book called “The Tao of Vegetable Gardening.” The author, Carol Deppe, applies Taoist principles (especially that of wu-wei, “not doing”) to the soil, but the book isn't about Taoism. It's all about gardening. The Taoism is rarely explicit, but rather
The Joy of Seed Catalogs
Teresa Mull at The Spectator
What Do Fungi Have to Do with Athens?
Eve Tushnet at The University Bookman