Of goats and conifers
Just because a goat will eat something, doesn't always mean they should.
Jeanette Herrle
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark
How many of us knew before before November 2020 that Denmark has some of the largest mink farms in the world?
Re-imagining athleticism
Who gets to be a "real" athlete and who doesn't? How our ideas about aging, health, ablebodiedness and disability shape the status of Masters rowing
No animal is an island
On the joys of companionship.
Rowers of a certain age, part 1
Sometimes the rowing world forgets that Masters is a *competitive* category, and not just shorthand for “old people rowing.”
Professional identity and the "revolution in obstetrics," i
Enter the man-midwife, stage left.
'Round Midnight
Memories always start 'round midnight.
Ain't nobody here but us chickens
So calm yourself, and stop your fuss, there ain't nobody here but us.
The company of wolves
Notes from not-a-farm in the time of Covid-19.
Winter is here
Let the days be no shorter.
What's in a name?
According to our conventions for animal names, Peanut needed to be welcomed into the family with a re-naming after some badass, preferably of the revolutionary or radical type.
Use it or lose it
We do a profound disservice to older adults when we discourage strenuous exercise. It doesn’t cause degeneration—it helps mitigate it! Exercise, it turns out, *is* medicine.