Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kale (With apologies to Wallace Stevens. And also to Stephanie, who once wrote a similar ode to spinach.) I Among twenty bustling market stands The only worthwhile thing Was a bunch of kale. II I am of two minds Like a fridge In which there are two bunches of kale. [...]
I like to joke that people can tell I’m Dutch because I live mostly on kale and cheese. It isn’t too far from the truth. Three or four of my meals each week seem to consist of a large bowl of kale with whatever I have on hand mixed in. Quite often I’ll make kale [...]
I’m going to get geeky for a few minutes here. Please bear with me. I think that when I look back on my undergrad in ten years’ time, a lot of what I remember will be Euripides’ Hippolytos. For five consecutive semesters, I have had the play assigned in class, written a paper on it, [...]
March is such an odd month. It feels desperately like it ought to be spring, but somehow there’s a blizzard and it’s -16°C outside. There are some good things about this: it gives you a chance to squeeze in all those snowball fights and skating parties that you’ve been meaning to have but never quite [...]
