Category: shorties
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Review of The Power of Nature
I wrote a review of The Power of Nature: Archaeology and Human-Environmental Dynamics edited by Monica L. Smith, which is a compendium of examples about human creativity in response to various types of environmental factors. It’s wonderfully illustrative and I highly recommend giving it a read. Chapters 5, 7, and 11 especially stood out to…
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A Blurb on Tradition
I wrote this in May of 2022, but never posted it. So here I am, sharing it as I wrote it 18 months ago. In the last year I’ve visited Norway a few times (a plus of living in Denmark for a period), and for essentially the first time as an adult and without my…
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Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky
It’s been hard for me to write this month! I’ve been out of town every weekend, and hiking a lot, and also just not terribly inspired. I’m going to cheat a little this month and link to a book review that I wrote (which was published this month!) for one of my two posts; hopefully…
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Let them eat cheese
Nothing irritates me more than gatekeeping about food. Everyone eats, so why are there such boundaries around types and styles of food? I’m currently working at a cheese shop, and a girl came in the other day and kept going on about how uppity the shop was—“a store that sells bulk cheese? Bulk cheese?? Yes…
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The Impurity of Pristine Wilderness
This isn’t an essay post necessarily, merely a link to another essay I wrote that was just published in Edge Effect’s Unpure Imagination series! I read Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity a few months ago and loved it–she made so many connections exposing how nothing is truly pure, from race to food to medicine. Then she…
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Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to Mouth Potato! I envision this blog as a space for me to write about, think about, and process the things I read/see/hear/learn/question in the world in a semi-academic way. Not fully academic academic because this is a blog and not an essay for class (though there might be citations), but I…