I’m spending my time on this sabbatical writing, reading, and juggling all kinds of interesting things that have come up. We established the Make It! Vertically Integrated Project as a course students can take to manage the makerspace. Students in this course will be managing the makerspace in the College of Innovation and Design as … More What has been happening: a sabbatical reading and action list
Twenty years ago I drove across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey with a good friend of mine after dropping my best friend off at Oberlin College. After the highways closed in Pennsylvania we decided to stop for the night in Pittsburgh, where we watched Showgirls and found a can of soup and a cucumber. The … More The Sky Ain’t Done Yet
Throughout my life I have periodically witnessed individuals holding metal detectors, wandering through a park, or a beach, or some public location. I wish I could say that I have observed some pattern with these individuals, but they are often non-descript in some kind of basic clothing and a hat. All holding one arm straight, … More Everything beneath the dirt: Digging shiny metal out from the dark earth & the light of the blooms as the wind blows
When I first moved to Boise I lived in a house where I took care of the quail that lived on the property. There were two or three coveys of quail. I would feed them cracked corn in the winter and they would get fat, sleeping snugly below the rose bushes. California Quail are everywhere … More And we saw the quail run…
Amy Vecchione, MLIS 