Dear Granny Mary on socially awkward confrontations — If you have a question for Granny Mary, put it in the comments or email to askgrannymary at gmail. Let’s look at the mail! Dear Granny Mary: So, here I am at home and outside my front door are a dozen or so buffalo. They look pissed. It could be…

Midday reverie — That the wheat gluten and my skill And the pressure cooker came together To make seitan — That I met and fell for The woman taught me to make it — That I even learned seitan exists From her cousin, Joe — That we went to Newfoundland and Had to spend…

Frida Katlo reverses herself — Hey, Human, Have you been watching this? Do you know what’s going on out there? The zombies aren’t coming to eat us, they’re on the Supreme Court! Women have already been arrested for having miscarriages, and Texas has already put a potential bounty on the head of every pregnant woman…

Frida has thoughts about your urgency — Nihilism: The idealistic notion that nothing can change the world. — Eric Jarosinski, “Nein: A Manifesto” Hey, Human, Again with the panic and chaos? Every week something is going awry with you. …

Why is no one talking about this?! — There’s normal worry. Like, “Oh, my God everything is going to shit!” We have no time for that. Read Jessica Wildfire — if you must — but come back to us when you need a scalding hot, humor scouring in order to feel clean again. We at MuddyUm inhabit the…

She’s dead. She’s wise. And you are nothing. Nothing! — If you have a question for Granny Mary, put it in the comments or email to askgrannymary at gmail. Let’s look at the mail! Dear Granny Mary: What do you think of millennial nihilists? Signed, Crotchety Old Person With a Lawn Hello, Crotchety! I really like millennial nihilists. They mix…

More than you think — Originally published at Education Reimagined Voyager. Colleague Bobbi Macdonald wrote a piece, Telling a New Story, discussing our need to move away from technical solutions — platforms, programs, and other tech — and to move towards a new story for learning. …