Archives for July, 2008
My husband and I were at our favorite local store, and I was buying some almonds because, well… yum! Anyway, I was thinking of raw almonds, but I saw him eyeing the roasted almonds, so we thought we’d get some. I tasted one of the roasted almonds, though, and… there was definitely something missing. It [...]
I don’t usually talk in extremes, but I think that growing food may be the most enriching thing I’ve ever done. Not because of food prices, although it does make a difference. But it’s more than that. Food prices might be a blessing, actually, because the high prices are for food that isn’t food. We [...]
“Plain language” is a movement away from legalese, and toward clear language that people can understand. It turns out that contracts and laws don’t have to be written in gobbledygook afterall. My friend Cheryl Stephens has been a pioneer in the plain language movement. She’s on a blog tour this week, promoting her book, Plain [...]
Writers who defend their clichés on the grounds that "they wouldn’t have become clichés if they weren’t good" may have a terrific point. And they should enjoy that, because what they won’t have is successful writing.
These mice are identical twins. Honest. Want to know what happened? Epigenetics is what happened. Epigenetics is a fascinating twist on the old nature vs. nurture debate. Apparently, environmental factors significantly affect how our genes are expressed. And in this case, a very common environmental contaminant, Bisphenol A, turned on some genes that were supposed [...]
We weren’t able to get a CSA this year — none were close enough that we felt comfortable committing to biking the distance each week — we did manage to get a garden planted. And that garden is producing Swiss Chard. (Or just Chard. I don’t know if it’s swiss or not.) I didn’t know [...]
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