“The history of storytelling isn’t one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.” —Therese Fowler As a trained historian I am supposed to be used to telling stories, or at least interpretations of the evidence in a logical yet pleasing narrative. I must admit however that I have been …read in detail
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Woodworkers WITH a Cause
It has been a little while since I last posted on the blog – we tried to convince him that it was for the best but he insists on subjecting his thoughts on the world – because I have been spending a little time with my extended family (monks actually get some vacation time) and …read in detail
Just When I Thought It Wouldn’t Happen to Me …
Lets make one thing clear: I was certainly not expecting to be writing this blog entry this week. I had a lovely little piece on some preliminary reports that showed the shavings (only garnered from boards planed with a #365 Stanley Jointer plane) from 3000 year old, spalted, birdseye, curly, Spanish, aromatic bubinga cured CANCER. …read in detail
Yuz got skillz
I was a strange kid. When I was in high school in the mid-nineties my peers were interested in watching Married with Children and playing on their PS1s. (I was still slumming it with my NES.) Sure I was happy to watch an episode of Married with Children; but if I flipped across PBS and …read in detail