My friend Axelle, super minimalist and organizer extraordinaire, sent me an email a few days ago that was so funny I would have snorted milk out my nose if I’d been drinking milk in the first place. Â Axelle doesn’t have a blog–or, she does, but she hasn’t written anything in it since 2010. Â So I […]
April 2 2009 Update: The following was written on April 1. Please keep that in mind as you read it. I have not stopped writing this blog! Well, it’s been a good run. But just this morning, I accepted a job in the marketing department of Johnson & Johnson (Shhh… my current employer doesn’t know […]
Last Friday, Arduous wrote a hilarious piece in response to Michael Pollan’s request for readers’ “food rules”. Instead of healthy rules for eating, her post, “Things That I Call Dinner,” confesses menu items such as candy, s’mores, and plain spinach with apples. My own rule for Michael Pollan, which I left in a comment to […]
We did a terrible thing yesterday and will now be stripped of our official green membership card. Actually, Michael did it. But he wouldn’t have if I hadn’t begged him to. We turned up the thermostat on our hot water heater. Icebergs will melt and polar bears will be stranded because I couldn’t handle one […]
While Beth is taking another night off from blogging in order to get some much-needed and well-deserved sleep, we bring you A Special Message from the Polar Bear Community: Hey Humans: Our habitat is shrinking due to global warming. If current trends continue, TWO-THIRDS of our population will be driven out of existence. On top […]