It’s true. I’m addicted. I update my status at least once a day. I obsessively read friends’ status updates. In the evening, I often leave my computer tuned to “Live Feed” so I can keep up with people while I watch TV. And, it’s true, I have lost hours of my life looking at photos …
Oh, delicate little brown moth Fluttering in my jar of organic rice You’ve painted me a housekeeping sloth And surely, we shall not meet twice. For while ‘tis true I want to eat organic – Only whole, healthy, grass-fed food Grown without the use of pesticide – Finding you there was so traumatic That no …
A NY restaurant was keeping “George” the 20 lb, 80-140 year-old lobster as a sort of mascot, but PETA intervened on the lobster’s behalf and convinced the restaurant to release George into protected waters off the coast of Maine. As George was being taken away in his pimped out ice-lined foam cooler, the other lobsters …
Some common developmental milestones of preschool-aged children. Fine Motor Skills 1. Learn how to open cookie tin. 2. Sneak cookie tin behind sofa and eat all the cookies. 3. Use “time out” to plot next move. 4. Teach younger sibling how to open cookie tin. Gross Motor Skills 1. Learn to climb. 2. Use climbing …
The Washington Post writes: With the Chinese milk products-melamine scandal generating fresh headlines, U.S. health officials on Friday unveiled what they consider acceptable levels of contamination with the industrial chemical. The bottom line: No amount of melamine is safe in infant formula. For all other foods, only amounts less than 2.5 parts per million are …
1. She doesn’t have any national experience and less than two years experience as governor of Alaska 2. She’s pro-life. Fine in an individual, not in the VP 3. She’s against same-sex marriage 4. She supports natural-gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 5. She said, “[polar bears] are worthy of our utmost efforts …
On Wednesday, the New Jersey Court ruled that factory farming practices cannot be considered humane just because they are widely used. This decision, reached unanimously, sets a legal precedent to end abuses of livestock on factory farms across the U.S. and comes as several other states are making similar rulings.
Yesterday I sat on the grassy hump in front of my mother’s gravestone and dug out five shallow holes in the fertile earth in which to set five small flower pots. Nestling the pots in protects them from the wind and gives the roots access to moist dirt when I can’t get back to water …
This TIME article about Club4Climate implementing a piezoelectricity dance floor to generate electricity reminded me of my post about using power generating equipment on playgrounds. Coincidentally, just before I read it, I was talking to a friend about how great it would be if kids could generate power, not just by spinning on those spinny …
Sometimes I can’t even believe what I’m reading is actually real. “For the first time, the new rule allows the government to publicly release the names of the stores that have sold recalled meat and poultry posing the most severe risks to peoples’ health.” Note that it’s a “rule” not a law. “..the changes announced …
Just one day after reading that scientist James Hansen believes Earth is near the climate change tipping point, I read this interview with Michael Pollan in which he discusses farming, environmentalism, and ways to combat the current food and energy crises. Pollan talks about the connections between, well, everything: what we eat and how it’s …
U.S. law allows food manufacturers to label a food as something that it only vaguely resembles. For example, what is yogurt? Yogurt is, according to Merriam Webster, is “a fermented slightly acid often flavored semisolid food made of milk and milk solids to which cultures of two bacteria (Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus) have been …
Steve’s Born replacement shoes have cracked a sole. Are these shoes designed to only last 6 months? Ridiculous. I won’t even bother contacting the company this time. But really, we are done with Born.
President Bush wants to allow offshore oil drilling in previously protected lands off the U.S. Coast. Doing so could yield 18 billion barrels of oil. “That would meet current U.S. consumption for about 2-1/2 years, but it would likely take a decade or more to find the oil and produce it.” <sarcasm>Brilliant.</sarcasm> Meanwhile, here in …
I finally figured out that we can compost our shredded bills and such. Cool. We still don’t have usable compost. Sometimes I give the dog compostable food scraps instead since he is a much more efficient source. The poop composter generated soil for flowers and shrubs but the pyramid composter is still working on things …
The End of Food by Thomas F. Pawlick. Another book to feed my obsession with food issues (no pun intended).
All kids make up their own fun games to play. I know my kids have invented some really fabulous ones. Maybe your kids have played them, too. Lock the Door Use the key to lock and unlock the door repetitively. Stand on a chair if you can’t reach. Advanced version: wait until Mommy goes outside …
I just spent an hour in Scrabulous trying to find the perfect place to put the perfect word in a game that I am already losing by over 100 points. I think I have a problem.
1. “Nate, stop licking your brother.” 2. “Only one serving of chocolate chips at breakfast.” 3. “Stop blowing bubbles with your mucus.” 4. “Nate, stop licking the train seat.” 5. “Take the magic marker out of your ear.” 6. “Van, get your mouth off the guinea pig cage.” 7. “No spitting on the furniture.” 8. …
As wildly ecstatic as I was about Whole Foods last week because of the local grass-fed beef, I am just as wildly disappointed this week. I just read a news story about how much of the 365 brand organics aren’t USDA certified, as we are led to believe by the packaging, and, in fact, many …
