by Carolyn Crane | Feb 14, 2024 | Memoir
The annual nightmare began each Ash Wednesday, when I found myself another year further into the darkness of adolescence and agnosticism. Was it getting smeared with ashes that I dreaded, or was it the upcoming extra hours in this huge, stale box? I’d trudge up the...
by Carolyn Crane | Dec 29, 2023 | Native Plants, The Land
This is my third winter in Michigan. Since I’ve moved here, I’ve been struck by the fact that the weather seemed perfectly synchronized with the seasons. As the seasons changed, temperature ranges changed immediately. The last two winter solstices,...
by Carolyn Crane | Dec 3, 2023 | Field Trips
Every few months, my friend Maryam and I go on an adventure to a fun part of Ann Arbor called Kerrytown. The outings have begun to feel like ritual, since we do the same thing every time. Why try to improve on perfection? We take off from work at Washtenaw Community...
by Carolyn Crane | Nov 27, 2023 | The Land
I have been procrastinating about this post. Zone Two is, well, complicated. Of course it is. Zone Two is where the nonnative creatures dwell, the human in particular. Humans complicate everything. Zone Two includes the house, the barn, and the shed. It is fenced by...
by Carolyn Crane | Nov 15, 2023 | Memoir, My Left-Handed Wheelhouse
My Undoing [To read this memoir in order, go to the category My Left-Handed Wheelhouse here on the blog.] So I need to back up here. Just a few months. It had been a rocky ’23 in many ways. Things kept breaking in such a systematic way there surely seemed to be some...
