Lunch was Red Beans and Rice out of the Dinosaur cookbook, made with brown rice, homemade spicy beans and my own Sofrito sauce.  For dinner I had some more of my "faux fish" from the PETA book - I warmed them up with some of my homemade onion dressing (fat-free sour cream base).  I feel, well, really 'light' tonight but that may be because I ( Read more... )

    Yesterday was an interesting exercise in putting one's money where one has been talking. 'Eating local' for me involves going to the Regional Market, a place which, while interesting, I find crowded.  The parking is laid out very poorly, the traffic flow is nerve-wracking (bottlenecks abound) and, if people weren't unmannerly before they got ( Read more... )

    I've been reading the financial news, lately.  I think I would have to hide under a rock or only look at the weather page to avoid the business side of current events but, who's counting.  Subprime lending?  Bundled securities? Double-priced commodity trading?  Hel, I can't even figure out how 'futures' work, or what makes anyone think that ( Read more... )

    I believe in the significance of little things that just sort of happen.  Serendipity?  The chance meeting that changes your life?  The moment when the light blinks on and suddenly you see?  Yeah, those.  But there are those you understand and then there are those that make you wonder.  Among those whose meaning just leaps to me is the rainbow ( Read more... )

    No, I haven't been on vacation nor been swept away by some cute masculine type.  The computer has been working just fine and no one has been ill or died.  I can't really say I've been especially tired or busy but I have been using my social quota to train my new employee.  My reading has mainly involved finishing a Charles deLint novel and ( Read more... )

    If you sat down to read 'Green Witchcraft' you might not go to the same place as I do; you might even wonder how I connected my dots.  The next thing one might expect me to write would be to offer some sort of qualifying statement about your interpretation is as valid as mine, which brings to an important point:  I discussed briefly, in a ( Read more... )

    Moving into the next phase of my diet I'm decreasing the amount of meat and trying to find substitute foods for fattening snacks.  I love granola-type things and can usually just eat a reasonable serving if I dish it out.  There are lots of choices for this type of cereal in the store - yes, I could make my own, but there are only so many hours ( Read more... )

    This has been a DJ evening.  I sidestepped the work issues and wrote two other pieces:  I wrote about some recent exchanges and ended up asking myself if I really should have been a man.  I also did a reading with my Tarot of the Crone (downloaded the PDF with the author's notes for this) and definitely have further questions ( Read more... )

    I'm on the fourth and final section of Pollan's 'Omnivore's Dilemma,' where he attempts to assemble his own meal by hunting, gathering and gardening.  I don't think I'm going to get on the bandwagon of eating only those things which come from within 100 miles of where I live - I love my coffee and I indulge in some fresh out-of-season ( Read more... )

    One of the difficult things about online communities is trying to engage in meaningful discussion without it devolving to misunderstanding.  I need to resort to sighing rather than exercising the Inner Bitch even though the latter has been integrating into my regular personality more, lately.  Occupational hazard, as you folks who see the ( Read more... )