Posted in Philosophizing on Aug 27th, 2008
I forgot an important concept in the post about the NOFA conference–the idea of growing food for people. Both of the conference keynoters mentioned it, saying that farmers and farms have drifted away from the people they feed. Some farmers won’t eat what they grow, tainted as it is with the knowledge of what they’ve done to it.
The fact [...]
Posted in Events, Green living, Philosophizing on Aug 17th, 2008
Last weekend, I was in Massachusetts for the Northeast Organic Farming Association’s annual conference.
What did I see? Well, first we made a stop at Ellen’s parents’ farm. The conference springs forth pretty much entirely from an office just above the basement greenhouse where the seedlings come to life each year. Outside the control room, family [...]
Posted in Philosophizing on Aug 2nd, 2008
A feature of my past and current kitchen is a beautifully illuminated and framed post about coffee. A reader and friend was inspired by the piece and thus made it my one and only post to achieve that kind of immortality.
I realized today that it’s been exactly a year since I wrote that.
In that year, [...]
Posted in Philosophizing, Reviews on Jul 3rd, 2008
Skimming recent issues of Elle, you can find plenty of interviews with iconic women doing their own iconoclastic thing. And reading along, you can see one defining experience usually pushed them out to uncharted waters. Mary Kate Olsen was surrounded by kooky show biz people from the age of nine months. After a series of [...]
Posted in Kvetching, Philosophizing on Apr 23rd, 2008
The Relocation Diet — it’s simple, it’s sad, it’s full of revelation. A meal that makes me feel full at the end usually begins with a cast iron pan and lots of canola oil. I plunk it down, heat it up, and hunt for something to fry. Or I start with a brilliant idea–sweet [...]
Posted in Philosophizing on Mar 26th, 2008
Oh, YaD! How neglected you must feel! (Not to mention my dedicated readers, who are no doubt checking in every night and crying themselves to sleep when they see no new posts!)
I’m doing a quick check in from 42 stories above the Big Easy. I have only about 48 hours to meet, network with, and [...]
Posted in Holidays, Philosophizing on Mar 18th, 2008
Sorry, I couldn’t resist the title.
The thoughts of the day are:
1) Does a glass of red wine cancel out a hardboiled egg? Or maybe it takes two glasses. (Yes, why not make it two?)
2) Could that be the real reason we drink so much wine on Passover?
These occurred to me as I read this and this.
Posted in Current events, Philosophizing on Mar 10th, 2008
I say “tar,” you say “jhay!”
Tar-jhay!
Tar-jhay!
Yes, Target is here. The oft-Frenchly-pronounced-with-irony big box sailed in last week to anchor DC USA, the first non-snooty mall in the District.
And it’s got a café.
Posted in Philosophizing on Feb 5th, 2008
A piece of writing does not appear fully formed on the page with just a wiggle of the pencil. We all know that. But do writers really believe that writing is work?
Measuring, prodding, covering, uncovering, failing, creating, cutting off, throwing away, paring down, then layering on again…. If we really think out our concept and [...]
Posted in Green living, Philosophizing, Reviews on Jan 23rd, 2008
It’s been a while since my passionate vegan days (around ages 15-20). But as a Google search of my name reminds me, I was once a teenaged vegan idealist who snatched at the first glimmers of the e-networking world as a member of the Vegetarian Youth Network (scroll down to “New Paltz”). On this proto-listserv, we exchanged [...]
