by unapocha | Apr 8, 2020 | Quarantine Life
The Decameron is blazing in our gestalt. How Can Boccaccio’s 14th Century Decameron Help Us Live Through COVID-19? These Sacred Cycles are eternally repeating. Would that we all had a charming Italian villa to escape to. Meanwhile in modern-day Italy, the...
by unapocha | Apr 7, 2020 | Quarantine Life
Juvenile Garden. My little plants have entered their awkward teens. The corn has started sprouting shafts. Right now it looks like giant tufts of crabgrass. Behind them, I finished building some new planters. They’re entirely composed of salvaged materials we...
by unapocha | Apr 6, 2020 | Quarantine Life
Buying groceries during a pandemic is a complicated affair. It’s super stressful to suit up like an astronaut and go out to an actual store, so we’ve been looking into delivery options. At first we thought that Amazon Prime would come thru but they are...
by unapocha | Apr 5, 2020 | Quarantine Life
It’s Sourdough Sunday! I’ve been feeding my starter for 5 days and am finally baking with it!! Every time I feed my sourdough starter, I drain off enough “discard” to keep the starter at about 1/4 cup. Sourdough discard can be used to make an...