Last weekend, Eric and my friend Amy and I went raspberry picking. We ate raspberries while picking until our stomachs hurt and then took home a whole bunch of raspberries. I froze half and we ate half fresh. All week we’ve been eating raspberries and one way we’ve been enjoying them is in this super […]
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Summer Teaching: Doing Multispecies Ethnography
I’ve been absorbed these last few weeks in teaching a new course at the University of Washington. A variation on my Animals, Ethics and Food class, this course is called Animals, Ethics and Food: Doing Multispecies Ethnography. It is a condensed course, meaning that instead of a 10-week quarter, the term lasts only 4 1/2 weeks. […]
Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake Muffins (with GF option)
As promised in my last post, I have for you today a delicious coffee cake/muffin recipe. As I was panicking the day before my defense about whether to make coffee cake or muffins, I realized I didn’t have to choose: I could make coffee cake in muffin shapes! I adapted this recipe from The Savvy Vegetarian and […]
Dissertation Defense & Beyond
On Wednesday, I defended my dissertation, which is the final evaluation for the PhD. Good news: I passed! And I’m now done with the PhD. All that remains is filing my dissertation with the graduate school. It’s kind of a weird feeling to be done. I’ve been working on this thing for so long now, […]
Tabbouleh
Things over here have been pretty basic these days — just trying to hold things together as I finished my dissertation, travelled out of town to conferences, and then got slammed with a grisly upper respiratory bug (is it possible that the month of May could be summed up so easily? Sadly, yes.) — and […]
South Sound Vegan Chili Cook-off 2014
Calling all chili lovers, chili makers, and pig lovers! Here is an awesome event put on by the South Sound Vegans where you can show up for a chili contest, eat delicious chili, win prizes and raise money for Pigs Peace Sanctuary. As you’re probably aware, if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, I […]
Reader Poll: Online Classes through Serenity in the Storm?
Good morning! It’s been a busy couple of weeks and I wanted to give you all a bit of an update. I was in Tampa the week before last for the annual Association of American Geographers meeting. It was the most exhausting week I’ve had in a long time on so many levels, but there were […]
Blueberry Cream Cheese Pastries
Last week was one of the toughest weeks I’ve had in a long time and then, on top of everything else, it ended with the death of my grandmother. In true Gillespie fashion, when the going gets tough, the tough eat. My grandmother used to make blueberry pies in the summer. We would go blueberry […]
Celebrating 100 Years. Saying Goodbye.
My grandma, Florence, died this morning. She would have turned 100 on the 19th of April. She died at home in Portland, which is what she wanted. And she got to live at home until the end, thanks to my uncles’ care and a number of caregivers who cared for her over the years. Part of […]
(Re)learning to Sew
Last quarter, I taught a new course at University of Washington — En Vogue: From Feathers to Leather — about the animal, human and environmental impacts of the fashion industry and garment production (with a focus on leather, wool, feathers, and fur). Going into the course, I really had no idea how students would respond […]
