Plastic Farm AnimalsCamille lives with her soul mate Bob in the back woods of central North Carolina where she hikes, gardens, cooks, and writes.
Today, I decided to see if I could find out whether it’s possible to buy motor fuel in the United States that hasn’t been mixed with imported oil. For this exercise I targeted the Colorado/Wyoming area and the short answer is “No.” I did find some good news, though. 40% of the 22 million barrels […]
We’ve been living in the Continental United States for nearly 7 months now and are still in shock. It is really hard for us to be here and see how the quality of life has eroded. The problems and their solutions seem so obvious and so simple, yet the majority of people seem oblivious to […]
Ohmygod – how much more blatant can the Media-ocracy be! Yesterday, President Bush named Tony Snow, a talking head from Fox News, as his new press secretary. A corporate sponsored mouthpiece for a corporate sponsored administration. How painfully appropriate! Just another slash to the wrist of American Democracy, just another nick in the death of […]
Today we ate these: As opposed to this: Need I say more?
Depending on which country you are speaking Spanish in, huevos can mean either eggs or, er… cojones (meaning “balls” or a brash attitude.) If there was any way to connect the two, it might be with the story of the European Common Cuckoo. This bird lays a huge egg in the nest of another species […]