by Carolyn M. Crane | Aug 28, 2011 | Education, Essays
This essay is from the archives; I wrote it in 1998 about my oldest son, Forrest, now an honor student at Portland State, studying Russian and history. We home schooled from 2nd through 7th grades. I hope he learned half as much as I did. In early August the memories...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Aug 18, 2011 | Essays, Farming |
“The appropriate measure of farming then is the world’s health and our health, and this is inescapably one measure.The use of nature as measure proposes an atonement between ourselves and our world, between economy and ecology, between the domestic and the...
by Carolyn M. Crane | Aug 8, 2011 | poetry, Politics |
I’ve just taken three months away from my desk as I moved the farm and office and settled in. This morning is my first morning back at my desk. To mark the occasion, here is a poem I wrote over 20 years ago. It’s been bubbling up in my mind these past...
