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July 19, 2022

Fighting a Logging “Epidemic” in Vermont’s Roadless Forests

The US Forest Service is exploiting a loophole in the Roadless Rule to back misguided management plans, say activists.

Will wrote in Earth Island Journal about protecting the Green Mountain National Forest against logging and about restoring wild, public lands in New England.

“There’s really kind of an epidemic of roadless logging in both New Hampshire and Vermont, in the White Mountain and Green Mountain National Forests,” says Zack Porter of Standing Trees. “Many thousands of acres at this point have been targeted. And many miles of roads have been punched into some of the wildest landscapes that we have in New England.”

April 7, 2022

Celebrating 1 year of SAFB!

Check out the anniversary issue of my newsletter, Sundays are for baking – with a chocolate & almond biscotti recipe, a new poem, and a collection of some of my favorite issues from the past year! Such as:

Salted chocolate chip shortbread cookies!

Savory spring mushroom galette – a collaboration!

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February 15, 2022

Chocolate pudding pie

Happy Valentine’s day, sweethearts. Hope you are staying warm. Does anyone else have this faint, embedded feeling – from elementary school days, or something – that with February comes at least the beginning of spring? I guess in a way it does. And I’m looking forward to spring – I’m starting to, slowly. But I am also trying to relish winter – we are really enjoying the snow. And even though winter days can be short and fast and dark, I know that the hustling, bustling longer days and strong sun of summer bring their own pressure and challenges.

For this sweet, snowy holiday, I made a chocolate pudding pie! With an oreo cookie crust and fresh whipped cream! So good.

Take me to pie!

Read all about this delicious, chocolatey, creamy treat and find the full recipe in the most recent issue of Sundays are for baking. Along with a little love poem from me and more. Read on and subscribe now 💌 !

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December 31, 2021

Enjoy the most recent issues of Sundays are for baking on Substack (below), and subscribe for more newsletters! Writing, art, and recipes in your inbox roughly monthly! These newsletters are a place where I am sharing new things, musings, off-grid thoughts and challenges, and connection with food, plants, and nature. Come along by subscribing! And please share!

Apple crisp and other fall things:

Maple scones and winter celebrations:

See you in 2022!

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November 11, 2021

Recent Sundays are for baking newsletters – spooky and sweet!

Read the two most recent SPOOKY issues of Sundays are for baking – featuring homemade granola, pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, and three-ingredient peanut butter cookies! There are full recipes plus other seasonal goodness in these issues – check them out below! And subscribe for upcoming newsletters!

Mostly Stovetop Granola

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins – my original recipe also featured in Hallowzine: issue 2!

Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

More fall (apple and butternut squash soup).

More Sundays are for baking (a roughly monthly newsletter on cooking, baking, food, art and more!).

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October 16, 2021

end talk – the latest!

I’ve got some recent new content to share from END TALK – podcast and media newsletter!

Listen:

“How Obama Killed Indie Music” (on the shifting terrain in indie music from 2000 to the present, including the particularities of the indie sound as the genre developed and mutated post-2010)

“Ciao Bella!” (on Cuomo, the non-hero of New York AKA Emmy-award winning disgraced ex-Governor, Andrew Cuomo)

These episodes are also available on podcast streaming apps by searching “end talk.”

Read:

“Welcome to END TALK, and welcome to summer 2021, possibly the hottest summer yet experienced during mankind’s existence on planet Earth, but hardly the hottest we will experience for the remainder of our species’ tenure here. Welcome BACK TO NORMAL—today is Friday, July 16, 2021.

Back to normal… this concept was the selling point for the Biden electoral coalition, as well as the theoretical promise to be realized by ending the pandemic. Well, the pandemic has not ended, and while the administration did not achieve its goal of vaccinating 70% of Americans by the 4th of July, that’s ok!—because we have collectively decided to pretend they did.

It seems that normalcy is more a collectively-agreed-upon state of acceptance than any objective metric for measuring external reality.”

Read on.

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June 30, 2021

end talk – i’m so bored with the USA

Read the latest issue of end talk now: I’M SO BORED WITH THE USA. It is full!

“This issue of END TALK loosely embodies the spirit of the frontier, our collective ceiling, and the deep challenge of escaping history. We include another roundup of the current climate situation, an essay by Ben on the attempt to create a European Super League, a partial reprint of Will’s essay on fascism, a shout-out to a couple non-controversial Substacks, and several music and reading recommendations, including a recent interview w/ Arundhati Roy & a new music video from our friend Anguid.”

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May 2, 2021

Sundays are for baking

Read the last two issues of Sundays are for baking – recipe newsletter:

salty-sweet pink moon treat (salted chocolate chip shortbread cookies)

Subscribe for free for baking inspiration in your inbox! (Roughly twice a month!) And please share!

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April 7, 2021

buttermilk muffins

Another easy and delightful breakfast recipe on Sundays are for baking earlier this week: please read and subscribe!

Sundays are for baking is a recipe newsletter I’m writing on Substack. Subscribing is free!

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March 29, 2021

flourless chocolate cake

Happy Passover! For a new issue of Sundays are for baking, I made flourless chocolate cake, using a recipe by King Arthur Baking Co.! Check it out, and PLEASE subscribe in Substack for new issues!

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