LivingSmall

So, it’s snowing again this morning — and although I’m quite tired of snow, it’s a lovely soft morning — bit fat snowflakes, no wind, not too cold. So off for our morning dog walk I went — I’m babysitting the MH’s dog while he’s gone to Arizona for a couple of days and it […]

I was doing laundry yesterday, and while channel surfing in search of something non-football-related to watch, I stumbled upon the UCLA rally. I missed Caroline Kennedy and Oprah, but lucked out and switched to CSPAN just as Michelle Obama began to speak.
She was amazing — funny and smart and fierce — to those who say […]

My 97-year-old grandmother asked for an absentee ballot for the Democratic primary so she can vote for Hillary.
My grandmother has never voted for a Democrat before in her life, but she wanted to “vote for that woman.”
My grandmother was a crack polo player in the 1930s, when polo was a hugely popular public sport (30,000 […]

My love of Joan Dye Grussow’s work, particularly This Organic Life, is well documented on this blog. Her experiences over the years growing and storing most of her own food was absolutely inspirational to me when I built my garden, and it’s still a book I go back to again and again.
This video has been […]

Because Politics is in the tag line — all I can say is Wow — Obama not only won it, he won it in a rout. I know there are naysayers. I’ve heard all the “experience” talk. And you know what? I don’t care …
He inspires people across the spectrum — I’m hearing apocryphal stories […]

So, I’ve been buying raw milk from a local rancher since last fall — she shows up every Tuesday with a glass gallon pickle jar full of milk, with a nice layer of cream on the top. The cream has been getting thicker the past couple of weeks — I used to skim about a […]

I haven’t figured out how to embed a YouTube video on my page yet (must go learn that) but check out this clip of Barack Obama’s victory speech in Iowa last night. It’s long, but it’s worth watching the whole thing.
I think either Hillary or Edwards would be perfectly good presidents, and certainly better than […]

I managed to get the last packaged in the mail this afternoon and I’m swamped putting out some last-minute fires at my Corporate Job.
In the meantime — check out this five-part investigative piece on the Ameya Preserve that New West is publishing. I’ve only read part one thus far, but seems like a cogent discussion […]

Bonnie over at Ethicurean picked up this correction that the WSJ ran this morning on the money that Wade Dokken has paid Alice Waters to endorse his Ameya Preserve.
I don’t have much more to add to the several items I’ve already written about Alice Waters and the Ameya Preserve. Ameya’s advertising and marketing claims […]

I’ve got a post up at Ethicurean. Looks like Alice Waters had an answer to why she’s involved with the Ameya Preserve. You can read all about it here.