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  • Non-GMO seal

    A long overdue label. Monsatan will probably sue. Eden Foods is one of the most conscientious large food producers out there. ‘Non-GMO’ Seal Identifies Foods Mostly Biotech-Free By WILLIAM NEUMAN Published: August 29, 2009 Many makers of organic and natural foods said their credibility depended on ensuring that their products were free of genetically altered…

  • Field pea info

    Someone asked me where to buy field peas for planting today. Any country hardware store that sells seeds in the South carries them, but for areas where you’d have to order them, here are some suggestions and links: Slow Food Triangle had a field pea tasting a while back. Here are the results and some…

  • Anna Banana gave me a good prompt in the comments: “Do you think doing art facilitated/facilitates your transformation? Can you say more about how you got from there to here?” This requires a much longer answer than I can do justice to in the comments, so here it is. I guess that to explain this…

  • Well, I certainly have come a long way from eight years ago when I was diagnosed with panic disorder and agoraphobia. When I found any decision to be so difficult that I agonized over passing someone in the hall at work, because I couldn’t decide whether I should say hello or not. When it was…

  • Saturday morning coffee pot post

    Here I am again, writing whatever pops into my head until my little coffee pot runs out. Planning my weekend. A “normal” weekend at home for a change! I woke up with “A Hundred Pounds of Clay” in my head this morning. I have no idea how it got in there, but it’s not the…

  • On August 28 at 5:30 p.m., if everything goes as planned, I will declare independence from AT&T. At least, until they decide to buy up Sprint. I finally gave in to the Credo ads and I’m replacing the landline with a cell phone. This will cut my phone bill more than half. We spend so…

  • Why am I not surprised that the representative of the development company who is planning to build a large apartment complex two blocks away could not name even one specific example of sustainable/green building or landscaping in their many past projects? I mean, the guy couldn’t even come up with an easy plausible lie like…

  • Trying not to dread tomorrow – first day of classes, lots of phone calls and confused students, and a major problem that will have to be dealt with first thing. I began working on an altered book about our Alaska trip today. I have a thick 1939 high school self-education book that I cut out…

  • Saturday morning coffee pot post

    Hmmmm. I’m not quite awake yet. This is the exercise where I write whatever my thoughts are until my little coffee pot runs out. I’ve been writing everyday for a while now, but usually just in little snippets. So by the time that I get to my coffee pot post on the weekend, there’s not…

  • Killian died today. I didn’t know him – I knew his mother and grandmother pretty well at one time. He was much too young, but from what I’ve learned about him he sure lived his life to the max with an incredible spirit. He inspired a lot of people, including me. I received a couple…