Archive for October, 2007

New Post on LWOS

Wheeeeeee! You’ll find it here. The clever amongst you will note that the post references a four year old, and Rowan is now five, so clearly that post has been sitting in the queue for a while. ::shrug:: It happens like that sometimes.

Ode to a Bowl of Mashed Potatoes

This is the best bowl of mashed potatoes I’ve ever had in my life. Smashed with a fork because I don’t own a masher any more, with coconut oil because I try hard not to do dairy any more, it’s nonetheless a bowl of steamy starchy ambrosia goodness. You’d think a raw food advocate would [...]

blog action day — the environment…

Friends, as part of blog action day, I’m blogging about the environment. This is, if you know me, laughable. I have a graduate degree in treehugger. I’m totally evergreeen, yeah? I had no freaking idea what awareness of my footprint truly was until I moved onboard a boat. Here are a few highlights: Water consumption. [...]

To You, Mrs. Brown

Through a strange set of circumstances, I find myself today thinking a lot about Christy Brown‘s mother. The tenth of her 22 births, Christy was born with cerebral palsy, in the crushingly poor Dublin of 1932. Despite being told he was a vegetable, he was not human, Mrs. Brown persisted. “It is his body that [...]