So mostly, time marching on is helpful- we learn more about how the world works and more about how we as humans work, and our lives get better. But lately, what seems like a very large amount of the advances made in science and industry have begun to have the opposite effect. Instead of learning [...]
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Lost Arts of Common Living- What your great-grandparents knew that you don’t.
Posted in family on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On cold medicines and the FDA
Posted in FDA, Kids' Health, Medicines, family on October 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, being that it’s October (Again? Didn’t we do this like a year ago?) my Dear Son has a cough. And, as with most children, the cough is worst overnight and into the early morning, which makes for less than restful night for him. So, like countless parents on countless nights, I give him cough/sniffle [...]
IMPROVED CHAIRS
Posted in artistic, empty nest, family on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, along the lines of my last post, I have this fantasy hobby in which I take old chairs and repair and improve them (read decorate and maybe cushion up) then give away or sell them. In my fantasy, I use photographs, maps, other documents, pieces of fabric, mosaic tiles and paints to Improve the [...]
On Approaching Change
Posted in empty nest, family, vegan, writing, writing and life on August 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In about two weeks, my daily life is going to change a bit. I’ve been home with my kids for the last eleven years, but last year my son went to all day kindergarten. For about three weeks, I tried to figure out what I ought to be doing with the six hours of solitude [...]
Ruminations on Going Vegan
Posted in family, vegan, vegetarian, veggie kids on August 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Currently, my family of four (Dear Hubby, Dear Daughter (10) and Dear Son (6) and little old me) are ovo-lacto vegetarians, however, recent events have got me thinking about going vegan- for myself at the very least and probably encouraging my family in that direction will come into play, as well. A few months ago, [...]
On My Extended Family’s Transitioning Diet
Posted in family, recipe, vegetarian, veggie kids on August 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I come from a large family and we were raised pretty traditionally when it comes to diet- that is to say, we all ate meat and sea food and wheat and nuts and dairy and- the thing is, we were the standard American Omnivores. Over my thirty-seven years many of us have made changes from [...]
