What’s the Mission?
One of my colleagues handed out prizes at school recently, saying, “…and if it breaks before you go home today, well, it’s a dollar store prize.” And that’s a lot of what you find at the dollar store (Dollar Tree in our case) — cheap plastic toys that don’t last long. So why do we [...]
Sometimes, in all of my spare time, I read and write about books. I’ve been hearing many people in the book world say that we need to support authors by buying new books, because they don’t get a cut of used book sales. Is this really right or fair? As a person concerned about sustainable [...]
Yes, I’ve been busy. As a parent AND school employee, September is madness. And the first week of the month is usually the Week of Meetings Every Night, so the beginning of October is gone, too. But that’s not entirely why I haven’t been posting much. It’s also because some of the things I normally [...]
According to AdvertisingAge, sales of disposable diapers were down 9% for the 52 weeks ending August 7, 2011. Meanwhile, the number of babies age two and under fell by only 3%, and sales of diaper rash creams increased by 2.8%. AdvertisingAge reasons that this means that parents are letting babies sit in dirty diapers longer [...]
My husband often accuses me of being addicted to the internet. And he admits that he sometimes has a problem too. Lately, I’ve found myself feeling too tired to get things done — but not too tired to play around on the internet! Sometimes I fool myself that I’m getting things done on the internet. [...]
We’re not a car-free family. I do commute by bicycle, and use my bicycle almost every day, but we also have a minivan. My husband takes it to work, and we frequently use it for family outings, grocery shopping, and transportation to evening meetings and events. I tried going car-free for 10 days last year; [...]
I’ve chronicled my journey to becoming a full-time bicycle commuter here over the past few years. I’ve even gathered several of my posts into a Family Biking page, so that people who are looking for advice can find them. Today, I’ve got a post over on Utility Cycling about getting started with family bicycle commuting. [...]
Uncle Jack was old when we visited his farm, but he still kept cows. He milked the cows by hand twice a day, squatting on one of those funny little stools, and we were allowed to watch. I tried some of the raw milk, but I was a city kid, raised on supermarket milk. I [...]
