What’s the Mission?
If you’re a regular reader, you’re probably not surprised to find that I don’t shop at Wal-Mart. It’s not just some knee-jerk reaction for me, though. I know Wal-Mart has changed or improved some of their environmental and human resources practices. I know people who work there and have no problems. I know people who [...]
Today I decided to take a real Sabbath day. I didn’t go to church, because we don’t do that any more. I didn’t do anything! I didn’t ride my bike, or exercise on purpose in any way. I didn’t do any housework or volunteer work. Okay, I did manage to feed my family and water [...]
Yesterday, North Portland got to enjoy 7.5 miles of car-free streets as part of the city’s Sunday Parkways program. There will be two more Sunday Parkways events this year, but none of them very close to where we live. You see, I live out east. We’re still within the city limits, mind you. Just so [...]
In case you were wondering, yes, there is a nonviolent movement in Iran. We know that the government has fired on its own people, and we’ve seen protestors who seem less than peaceful as well, but here is one call for non-violent protests. I think they’ve probably done this for Tuesday already, although I don’t [...]
I tweeted the other day about the Iran election: Since then, I haven’t greened my avatar, I haven’t changed my location and timezone to Tehran, and I haven’t retweeted anything about the election. Because I don’t know if those are really the right things to do, and, like I said, because I’m not sure who [...]
I tweeted about it yesterday. 10:08 AM: Anxiety and self-questioning FTL. About 5:00 PM: NERVES. Nothing I did made it better. I took my daily meds. I exercised. I completed a few menial tasks. I didn’t stop and do deep breathing exercises, because I didn’t remember that it might help (even though someone did remind [...]
This feels silly, because I don’t write poetry (and after reading this, you may think that’s a good thing). I wrote previously about CubeSpace’s financial problems. While there was strong support (including financial support) from the community for keeping CubeSpace open, owners Eva Schweber and David Kominsky eventually decided it was best to fold the [...]
This morning, the whole family wanted to go to the farmers’ market. I thought we’d pick up some veggies and have lunch. Steven wanted to visit the free health screening van (he doesn’t have medical insurance). The kids just like to get out and about. I told them we’d have to do some cleaning up [...]
