Archive - Thistle and Whey Dispatch

Insects as canaries; elected officials as moral cowards

Where I've been, what we can do...

Jun 9 •

March 2025

Thirty five years...

And thirty five lessons...?

Mar 31 •

February 2025

What is something useful I can do now?

Pasta, and my 'word of the year' for 2025.

Feb 17 •

October 2024

some recent thoughts (my brain is really overwhelmed so here is literally a list of things that I have thought about recently)

What's for dinner?

Oct 28, 2024 •

August 2024

a note of encouragement? of solidarity?

early motherhood, time, over-stimulated brains, it's all happening...

Aug 11, 2024 •

July 2024

I wanted to write, but...

a vintage poem by the bf

Jul 26, 2024 •

This one is for the 'quitters'

I see you, I hear you, I am you

Jul 18, 2024 •

midwinter things

because the solstice has passed and today felt like 4 degrees.

Jul 2, 2024 •

June 2024

Pure winter morning joy.

rhubarb, seed crackers, little things that are good

Jun 18, 2024 •

more ease: beans and rice

the only dinner I make that everyone eats.

Jun 7, 2024 •

Not the letter I was going to write (again).

I won't wear a dress while cleaning.

Jun 1, 2024 •

May 2024

grief, rage, and dinner

how do you live with it all at the same time? (and a -good, quick, kid approved- recipe because dinner always needs to be cooked...)

May 24, 2024 •

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