Ken Ilgunas
- May 13, 2012
More chickenness
I am obsessed with chickens. Really. For the past two months, I’ve been raising five baby chicks. As I try to sleep at night, I can only...
Ken Ilgunas
- May 1, 2012
Banning Gay Marriage
Can’t you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can...
Ken Ilgunas
- Apr 22, 2012
It’s official: Vandwellers are banned from Duke
I was writing the epilogue of my book, and I needed to figure out one last thing: Have vandwellers been banned from Duke as a result of...
Ken Ilgunas
- Apr 14, 2012
More chicken pictures
We’ve decided on names to give to the chickens, again with the theme of 19th Century English authors. We haven’t distributed the names...
Ken Ilgunas
- Apr 11, 2012
Weekly Quote: Friendship
“A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do...
Ken Ilgunas
- Apr 8, 2012
Spring chickens
We’re raising four laying hens at the Abbey. The two dark ones are called Barred Rock chickens; the two light ones are Golden Comets....
Ken Ilgunas
- Apr 4, 2012
Warren Wilson and the Biltmore Estate: Travels in Western North Carolina
I spent last week in a little town called Black Mountain–just outside Asheville, NC–with some of David’s friends at their home called...