Archive for April, 2008

The audacity of failure

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I love me a good challenge, even though I tend to fizzle out after a few days or weeks. That used to make me feel like a quitter, but now I see that I’m actually making slow progress in developing new and better habits, so what the hell.
Grandma always said, “If at first you don’t [...]

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A little something to make you smile

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The skinny on food price trends

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A Pennsylvania bulk food wholesaler says rice and wheat aren’t the only foods in short supply.

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Earth Day week wrap-up

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Bras, Evolution, and Why We’re Living … Shorter?

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Your homework for today

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1. Go here and read Greenpa’s whole post about how to take action in the global food crisis.
2. Click and read all the links in the post. If you didn’t know things were this bad, educate yourself now. Stop to think about how things got this way.
3. Write to your representatives. Blog. Tell everybody [...]

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The Plan for the Food Supply

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Don’t believe it? Cartoon creator Mike Adams wrote an article that just might change your mind at NaturalNews.com.

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Dick Cheney’s mystery woman revealed

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Who’s that naked woman in Vice President Dick Cheney’s sunglasses?

Why, it’s NakedJen, of course!

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The True Food Shopping Guide

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Are you and your children eating GMO food? The True Food Shopping Guide

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The World According to Monsanto

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It’s billed as a documentary that Americans won’t ever see.. except on the Internet. Google Video has the entire, 1 hr 49 minute film. You owe it to yourself and your children to see it:
On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist [...]

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April is Eat What You Got Month

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While the Volvo is sidelined, a friend offered to take me along a few days ago on her weekly trip to the local organic food co-op. I bought almost exclusively bulk items like beans, quinoa, powdered milk, nuts, dried herbs, spices, salt, popcorn [gotta have my treats!] and several cans of diced tomatoes on sale.
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April is Buy Nothing Month

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I’m depressed. Or maybe it’s an anxiety attack. I have a hard time telling the difference.
Whatever it is, it hit me like a USPS truck when I opened my mail this morning and discovered an unexpected doctor bill for $164. Doesn’t sound like much, but combined with all my overdue medical bills dating back [...]

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No, I haven’t died. Not yet.

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Yeah, I know. I’ve been neglecting poor Bornfamous. Sorry. It’s just that I’ve been reading and learning so much that I needed time to process it all. And I haven’t been able to decide what to share–and certainly haven’t felt competent enough to set myself up as an expert, which is how I feared I’d [...]

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