A story about the use of garlic mustard in making a salve with antiseptic properties by the writer's great-grandmother.
A response to Barbara Stewart-Knox's statement about meat producers being the greediest industry, highlighting private equity and the financial sector as stronger candidates for greediness.
Support for American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins and the notion of writing outside one's own experience, citing Shakespeare as an example.
A lighthearted pun about the difference between a sentence and a cat at the end of the article.