Last night our school held its annual back-to-school social. Our family is not is any way ready for school to resume, but we packed up and went. Ostensibly so that my son could meet his new teacher. But realistically because I had volunteered to manage the evening’s waste plan. When Soren was in kindergarten at … Continue reading
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It’s Official
Thursday night, when I delayed bringing in the groceries from the car because I had to rescue my neighbor’s Styrofoam from the trash pile, I realized that I have officially crossed the line. I am Pemco’s Northwest Profile #17 – Obessive Compulsive Recycler. I know this is not news to many of you, especially my poor … Continue reading
Scientists make depressing discovery about oceanic plastic pollution using depressing research technique
As you might have read in previous about plastics, plastic in the ocean is one of the things that really freaks me out and motivates me to attend City Council meetings and drop literature at my nieghbors’ houses. Here is more evidence of why we have got to stop using so much plastic. I think … Continue reading
Brats
So, how would you respond if a child of about nine years old, whom you had never before met, looked you straight in the eye and said in the snottiest voice possible, “Would you MOVE?!” I was completely taken back for a second or two, as I perched on a small bench with a squirmy … Continue reading
Some really valid points about the needs of women with regards to development and climate change. As far as we have come, there is still so much work needing to be done to fully include women’s voices in plans that will affect us acutely.
Giving it away for free
As the children grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate conversations about worth and work. I have some astute kids who ask way more pointed questions that I am prepared to answer. Here’s a recent conversation I had with my son. “Mom, you’ve been in the lunchroom a lot lately.” “Yep. It takes a lot … Continue reading
I heart Obamacare
Even though it’s technically spring, flu season just got started around here. I spent the last week tending feverish children and a feverish husband, and swallowing as many immune boosting herbs and concoctions as I could manage. Any time we go through a week like this, I finish it off with a small prayer of … Continue reading
Show me how the piggies eat!
Each afternoon around 4 pm I find myself wondering what my spouse, my mother, my locavore friends, the kids’ pediatrician and the nutrition police would think if I fed the kids mac and cheese again for dinner. And would it make any difference if it was organic mac and cheese made with organic butter and organic soy milk? What … Continue reading
Fiddling With Themselves While Rome Burns
Like pretty much every other woman in America, I’ve been horrified by the cold realization that there are influential political voices out there who don’t want women to have access to birth control. I wasn’t planning to write about it, because I have been ignoring what comes out of the mouths of Republican politicians and … Continue reading
I have seen my future, and it isn’t pretty
I love words. Especially foreign words that describe in one neat bundle something that requires an entire sentence in English. So when this showed up in a friend’s feed, I dropped everything for some English-major style fun. Nine Foreign Words the English Language Desperately Needs At number four I paused uncomfortably. Kaelling: Danish for “an ugly, … Continue reading
Idealist Girl! 