Writing
“Dirt Made My Lunch: A trip through the food system and its externalities.”
July 2, 2025 - Docker Clark (Translated by Margaux Alfare and Docker Clark)
Inspired by a flash memory I had of a song I sang in elementary school, this informal article takes you from the formation of soil to the food on your plate in a very casual way. It also takes you through my realization that dirt or soil (which don’t always mean the same thing) is at the nexus of much of my research interests and lifelong passions. I wrote this for my good friends and coworkers, Margaux and Alex, who have a substack and website. I’ll let them introduce themselves on their website, which you should definitely go visit!
Me Fixer
May 13, 2021 - Docker Clark
This is a collection of five pieces of prose poetry that I wrote for a “Creative Writing in French” course in college. The pieces are “Le Viol ; Action ou Vérité”, “La Microonde”, “Les Diamants”, “La Bouteille”, and “L’Imparfait”, and they explore and express my many early-twenties emotions. While my French has most assuredly improved since 2021, I am proud of these as they are the first time I allowed myself to try to be creative in another language. Give ‘em a read if you speak French because I refuse to translate them! I will, however, translate “me fixer” as “staring at myself” and “to fix myself”.
Knitting!
The Strawberry Matcha Hat (V1)
As I dive back into fiber arts for the first time in years. I have found that, just like for cooking, I struggle to take directions from a recipe (or in this case, a pattern). I start to read one, follow the first few directions, and then immediately decide that I know better and go rogue. That happened with this, more than once! Oops! Here’s what I do know about this.
Used two colors of DK-weight cotton yarn and worked bottom-up.
Cast on 78 stitches in the pink color (had to be divisible by 6 because of the ribbing)
Immediately switched to green for the folded brim and worked the next several cm in 4×2 rib (I knit 4 and purled two, but should have done the opposite because that made me have to to the majority of the hat in a purl 4 knit 2)
The color chart provided here shows how I built the “gradient” effect (not pictured are the rows for the brim and the crown).
After the first 2/3 of the hat was done, I started decreasing by 6 every other row… then I got nervous that the hat was getting too big and started decreasing willy-nilly until it was hat-shaped (still turned out, if you ask me!)
