It's Loud Up There...

For a while now, I've been meaning to begin writing a new blog post, but couldn't seem to find the exactly right starting point (if there is such a thing). Some advice from one of my PhD committee members came to mind, "At this stage, don't think --- write !". So, once again, I find myself putting that wise mentor's advice into action. We just harvested our first pineapple since 2018! Way back then, I was writing my dissertation from our little apartment on the eastern end of Indianapolis while I worked my first big kid job (full time, salary, benefits, meetings where people say stuff like "aligned", the works). Our daughter was just a few months old and learning to crawl around --- faster each day, much to our first-time parental concern. This is, as I recall, a dwarf South African pineapple. As you can see in the picture, it is quite small. But it is absolutely bursting with flavor, which you would expect given that it is stem-ripened rather than p...