Yet Another Reason to Kick Shampoo
There seems to be yet another reason to kick shampoo, if you're using it every day.Where California goes, the rest of the country tends to follow, and here is something that may just catch on.According...
View ArticleOn Workable, Greener Living: My Worm Experiment
Back in June, I wrote a rather breathless diary on my brand-new indoor vermiculture experiment. I'd bought 500 Red Wiggler worms and set them up with plenty of moist shredded-newspaper bedding, in a...
View ArticleWhy These Postwar Poets' Sex Lives Matter
Since the World Wars, serious poets have tried to fill a God-shaped hole in the Western psyche.Anne Sexton (1928-1974), a housewife and former fashion model who went on to win the 1967 Pulitzer Prize...
View ArticleThe Forced-Birth Propagandists Come to YOUR Town
I live in the urban core of the Bay Area. One-half block from my home in Oakland, no doubt master-minded by people who never had to face an unintended or risky pregnancy themselves, we find this...
View ArticleMy Student-Loan Debt: True Confessions of a Fraud
This is about student-loan debt, how I discharged it, improbably, and what that's taught me about personal credibility. First, the backstory.Sometime after I turned 40, I opted to move ahead with...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women
Let me tell you, first of all, how uncomfortable I am with the title of this series. We know about the "war on women." The naked hatred society levels at women who defy traditional gender-role...
View ArticleAdditive-Free Living and a One-Pot Winter Meal!
Needed: Five-quart crock pot or dutch oven.So I ended up with a quart of glorious broth. I hunted for a good recipe in which to use it. I liked the idea of a hearty main-course bean soup at this time...
View ArticleLetter to a Republican, on "The Pleasure of Giving Respect."
Dear Tom,I have it from your wife that ever since Romney lost, and in light of developments since, you haven't been yourself. You're not exercising. You're up till all hours at the computer, reading...
View ArticleMeditation: My Journey
The evolving story of my meditation practice begins, more or less, with a story about yoga. Late in 2013, I began a daily hatha yoga practice to control stress and to increase personal stamina and...
View ArticleBridget Jones, Stuart Smalley and the Radicalism of Personal Self-Help
"Elsa" (names and identifying details have been changed) was born in Scotland in 1973. A few months after starting her first professional employment in 1997, she was having difficulty getting out of...
View ArticleFarewell to Vermicomposting: No Shame
I started raising worms to eat my household waste and then produce castings to nourish plants, a practice known as vermicomposting. I wanted to reduce my carbon footprint. I liked the idea of...
View ArticleWhat I'm Doing in 2018 and Why
I'm converting to Christianity in 2018. I'll work out such details as my intended denominational affiliation later. If I'm doing things out of order, so be it. If I'm "marrying" Christianity,...
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