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  • Real Good Salmon Cakes

    Real Good Salmon Cakes

    Made these salmon cakes the other day and they were awesome, so here’s the recipe!

  • The Best Succotash Recipe

    The Best Succotash Recipe

    I made up this succotash recipe over the weekend and it’s become my new favorite thing for fall 2022! There are only 6 main ingredients…

  • Hugo Award Reads, 2022

    Hugo Award Reads, 2022

    Four reviews of four novels nominated for Hugo Awards in 2022. I forgot to post this in August! Catching up.

  • My Manifesto for the Collapse

    My Manifesto for the Collapse

    The irony is not lost on me that I, a card-carrying member of Generation X, did not expect the world to get this bad. GenX:…

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photo of me; my hair is tones of orange; I'm a white woman standing downtown in my hometown on a pretty fall day

My students used to call me “RameyLady” and the name stuck. I write here about literally anything but mostly education, as I was a classroom teacher for a decade and now work in higher education. I also care about music, art, literature, good coffee, and … well, you’ll see.