For years, I’ve been making vegan carrot cakes from recipes I find online or from vegan cookbooks, but recently I wanted to play around and create my own recipe. The recipes I had been using were good, but I always found something I didn’t like about the recipes – either they were too springy/spongy, too […]
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Blueberry Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting
Hello! I hope you all are doing well and enjoying the summer so far! It has been so freaking hot here in Seattle this summer so far. I’ve been doing a lot of sitting front of the fan writing and eating cold watermelon, popsicles, and icy smoothies. I’m finishing up my book manuscript right now […]
Ethics of Zoos
Thank you all so much for your kind words and sharing your experience both publically and privately about Maizy’s death. It means a lot to me to be part of this broader online community. Last month I had the opportunity to do a short interview on the local KUOW radio station. The topic was the […]
On Death and Dying, or Mourning Maizy
At the beginning of October this past fall, we found out that sweet Maizy had a large cancerous tumor in her chest, surrounding her heart. She stayed in hospital for a couple of days, while they ran tests and tried to get her heart rate under control. We were able to bring her home – and continued […]
Piglets at Pigs Peace
I’ve been trying to decide what would be a good subject to blog about as a return to writing here on the blog. This has been a rough year for a number of reasons and, in the midst of everything, blogging has felt impossible. I’ve been doing lots of other writing this year, but somehow the idea […]
Teaching & Learning at Pigs Peace Sanctuary
This summer, I taught a course called Animals, Ethics and Food: Doing Multispecies Ethnography at the University of Washington in the Comparative History of Ideas Program (CHID). The course was unique because we got to travel to Pigs Peace Sanctuary for one day per week. While at the sanctuary, students were each paired with a singular pig for the […]
Everyday Oatmeal
The weather has started to turn here – it’s starting to feel distinctly like fall. The days are shorter, the weather cooler, and we’re starting to have more rainy, cloudy days as we head toward the winter months. But we are still enjoying the last of the summer produce. As the seasons shift, I like […]
Goodbye to Charlotte
Charlotte died on Friday, and I feel really sad. She was a beautiful and expressive chicken, who was also bossy and opinionated – and a little cranky a lot of the time. I noticed she was looking a little droopy and not very energetic and, when we checked her out, we discovered that she was in […]
Chocolate Peanut Rice Crispy Treats
So yesterday was the last day of my summer class on doing multispecies ethnography and we spent the day at Pigs Peace Sanctuary. The students turned in their ethnographies on Tuesday and presented them for the class and so yesterday we spent our time volunteering at the sanctuary – it was raining hard the whole time and after we […]
Red Lentil Artichoke Stew
Things with Maizy have been rough. She spent last Friday in the ICU trying to get her IBD under control. She’s stable for now and home with us. Her spirits are pretty good, and she’s been resting a lot at home. It was an emotionally taxing weekend for all of us. During stressful times like these, it’s nice […]
