Reading, Recycling, and Arugula
There have been a lot of books and articles popping up lately on all kinds of issues that I want to read. I’m keeping a list in hopes I can […]
Tag Archives: environment
Notes from Another Deck
Now I’m sitting on a deck located off the back of a log cabin outside of Cooperstown, New York, late Sunday morning. At 4 pm my baby cousin, baby no […]
Green Mountain State of Mind
I wish I had posted during my week in Vermont last week, so that I could have a real-time record of how happy I was there. Whatever I write now […]
Post Vacation
Vacation is over, I am sad. Whenever I come back home from the beach, my town seems positively Midwestern. But it’s just inland N.J. in the summer: buggy, humid, blah. […]
More to Explore
There has been a lot going on lately; in my head, at least, not so much in the actual physical world. Saturday night, in particular, when I was trying to […]
That S— Is Bananas
If you are interested in food sources, nutrition, GMOs, and the “eat local” concept, you should read this article and the comments. After buying some bananas at Target today, I found […]
Blog from the Past: Radical Homemakers Reviewed
Before I had this blog, I had a proto-blog. It was called “Pound Foolish.” It was pretty similar to this one, but I never publicized it all. I wrote it […]
Stuffing n Stuff
Last Friday was my birthday. To celebrate, my husband and I spent an extremely nonfrugal night at the Loews Philadelphia hotel. It probably wouldn’t have been so expensive if we […]
Confessions, Evaluations, and Gratitude
Remember those five goals I set a while back? Me neither. Oh, I kid. I do, and I want to see where I’m at with them. 1. Buy nothing new. […]
Downtown: A Manifesto
“So go downtown Things will be great when you’re downtown Don’t wait a minute more, downtown Everything is waiting for you, downtown” —“Downtown,” Petula Clark My town has a wonderful […]
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