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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, April 1, 2011. As of Friday, April 1, Free Range: Food, Nature, Place, and More. Has relocated to the brand-new Madroño Ranch website. We hope you’ll make the trip over and explore the new site, and we apologize for any inconvenience. Thanks for reading! 8212;Heather and Martin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Our Mission and Vision. Enter your email address:. Dai Due Supper Club. Barrie Cullinan Baked Goods. Texas Agricultural Land Trust. Poetry at Round Top.

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Free Range: January 2011

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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, January 28, 2011. Shooting holes in the Constitution: some thoughts on guns and violence. Recently, like many Americans, I’ve been thinking about the issue of guns in civil society. The tragic shooting in Tucson. Certainly focused attention on the topic, as did a story on National Public Radio. And yet, and yet. we recently saw and thoroughly enjoyed the Coen brothers’ adaptation of. Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for intelligent gun control. I’ve...Of course not: I lo...

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Free Range: November 2010

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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, November 26, 2010. Most memorable meals, take three: giving thanks. 8220;There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”. 8212;M. F. K. Fisher. The day after Thanksgiving, when we’re all still riding that tryptophan high, seems like an appropriate time to resume our occasional. Of posts on our most memorable meals. Pig sandwiches for a while.). Talk, and then we stagger off to the floor or sofa or even bed to lie down and groan for...

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Free Range: A mother’s legacy

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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, October 16, 2009. A mother’s legacy. The first sparks for the idea of Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing and the Environment were kindled about a year ago in conversations with my mother, Jessica Hobby Catto. She has listened carefully and thoughtfully to my sometimes wildly utopian ideas, offering hard-earned practical advice and persistent encouragement. 12,000-plus feet above sea level) to play in the snow. What we’re reading. Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist.

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Free Range: Tragic waste: some thoughts on the s-word

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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, March 25, 2011. Tragic waste: some thoughts on the s-word. Watching the bats from the kitchen stoop at Madroño Ranch the other morning was a little like watching my own thoughts. They swooped in and out of my line of vision, limited by the dawn darkness, more audible than visible. Actually, my comparison is disrespectful of the bats; their flight is only apparently. And use them as well. Notes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. That industri...

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Free Range: Lenten reflections: dead trees, bafflement, and submission

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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, March 11, 2011. Lenten reflections: dead trees, bafflement, and submission. Fittingly, this Ash Wednesday began with a vigorous north wind, the kind that knocks dead branches out of trees and can make you a little leery about walking outdoors. It blew me back to the moment that I first got a glimpse into the meaning of Lent. In fact, it might even take some courage to submit to the scouring blast of Lent. In last week’s post. I spent much of the weekend baffled (and...

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Free Range: "If you got a field that don't yield": writer's block and the language of community

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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, February 25, 2011. If you got a field that don't yield": writer's block and the language of community. One of the many notable gatherings Martin and I participated in this past weekend was the opening of my sister Isa Catto Shaw. 8217;s show at the Harvey/Meadows Gallery. In Aspen, Colorado. In a series of watercolors and collages, she took the dark, mute burden of grief over the death of our mother. Plus, if I’m reading, I can’t write. In particular the title essay...

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Free Range: March 2011

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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, March 25, 2011. Tragic waste: some thoughts on the s-word. Watching the bats from the kitchen stoop at Madroño Ranch the other morning was a little like watching my own thoughts. They swooped in and out of my line of vision, limited by the dawn darkness, more audible than visible. Actually, my comparison is disrespectful of the bats; their flight is only apparently. And use them as well. Notes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. That industri...

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Free Range: May 2010

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Food, nature, place, and more. Friday, May 28, 2010. Still more on violence: there will be blood. The other day, I stopped my car to chat with neighbors (a frequent occurrence in our chatty neighborhood). We quickly got to the topic of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. And its spreading devastation. D. told me that he’d heard an interview on National Public Radio. Am I Just Saying No to habits that keep drilling an attractive option to companies like British Petroleum? In the latest issue of The. We are a...