Plastic Farm Animals
With opposition to the war on Iraq growing daily, I think it is beyond time for an exit strategy. Who said this? – “Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.” According to this article, Exit Strategy? Honor Our Troops – Bring Them Home, […]
I measure my life in check marks on my “To Do” list. I walked to the grocery store, I wrote in my journal, I chopped onions, I vacuumed. Sometimes I wonder – “Am I a human being, or a human doing?” I learned the art of staying busy years ago from Julia, a gentle and […]
Small talk is very big these days and I’d like to blame this on the US invasion of Iraq. Not that I don’t enjoy generalized conversation. I’m actually quite good at it – heck, I can talk about horses until the cows come home! But seriously, it’s tricky belonging to a country at war. War […]
My husband has made me an outlandishly wealthy woman by giving me the luxury of time – all day, all mine – to do with as I wish. Stand still long enough and you will see something wonderful. Today it was a flicker working its way up a telephone pole in the first sun of […]
We stopped eating beef 6 years ago, after 14 months spent gazing at one bald, over-grazed hill, which stuck out like a sore thumb from the lush rainforest outside our home in Belize. A year later, we stopped eating all other forms of animal flesh. It seemed unethical to support the destruction of natural habitats […]