During a break from the desk a few minutes ago, I started reading a book I checked out last week and has just been sitting on my desk in the back. It's another of the "state of American food" books like I've been reading lately. But, in its mention of HFCS and soft drinks and diabetes and such, it spurred an idea in my head ( Read more... )

Here it is the end of March and I'm thinking a whole day in advance of what I'll put on the bulletin board for April. National Poetry Month is promising. I'll just get some poems and drawings and photos of children's poets. My favorite from my own childhood: Shel Silverstein. In the midst of checking out his really neat website, I discover that ( Read more... )

This morning I got the urge to play Moria. I've downloaded the old PC version time and time again and always been disappointed by it though. I used to waste HOURS playing it on my brother's Amiga, and later on my own Amiga. The Amiga version had rudimentary graphics. I missed them. So, I spent most of the day downloading an Amiga emulator and ( Read more... )

I'm so tired of responsibility. And lack of control of others.

Oh... And the lack of people-free time.

I've been tossing around the thought of guerrilla gardening on one or more of the three vacant lots within a block of our house. One has just recently been mowed/cleared and has a huge stack of old tires making an eyesore of itself on the front of it. I was thinking of stacking them 2-3 high and using them as planters for something. Tomato ( Read more... )

After having read about a half dozen books about American diet habits and the American condition overall, I'm determined to eat healthier. Fast food Nation, Fat Land, Chew on This, What's Cooking?, The Omnivore's Dilemma, (okay, not quite half a dozen)... But overall what I've gathered from this all is that we're feeding petroleum products to our ( Read more... )

I was lying in bed a while ago, reading a book. It's a kids version of Fast Food Nation, called Chew On This. It's got a lot of words on a page, but it's in a somewhat simplified language for the kiddos. Not too simplified though. I read Fast Food Nation about a week ago, and some of these paragraphs seem to be word for word copies of the older ( Read more... )

Oh, and some of you out there piss me off to no end. You probably don't know who you are. It's probably better that way.

Over the years I've noticed I'm a bit of a doppelganger. That's probably not quite the right word to describe it, however. Whenever I'm around someone their emotions and mannerisms rub off on me, and I become a little more like them. Maybe this happens to everyone. It tends to happen more with those people I admire more for one reason or ( Read more... )

There were 23 people in my house all at once yesterday. I still don't understand how or why I have so much food leftover. Anyone want pie? It was great fun. Folks seemed to enjoy themselves. But I kept it in my head that we had 12 guests on the list. And somehow I didn't picture just how large a group that was. Once I finally sat down last ( Read more... )