Subject: Tell Obama: No pesticide lobbyist nominees ( Read more... )

So, y'all might or might not know I'm in a breakfast club with some neighbors/old friends. I was cook today. Up at four, mostly because I had slept all I could ( Read more... )

Michael Pollan in the NYT ( full text under cut )

so, it is autumn, even here, even in northern coastal-ish california, where there are still tomatoes on the vine and i have the temerity to start bok choy and peas, in case i can get a crop in before the real chill comes ( Read more... )

amazing. month's half gone. how does that happen?

Anyway.

Film analysis paper due in two weeks. I will be doing mine on Real Women Have Curves, because I enjoyed it AND I think it will do me good to look at it again, not from the point of view of having been 'the fat girl' or 'the rebellious one' or whatever, but trying to get out of my white ( Read more... )

a) I voted.
b) I have read my studies for the day's courses.
c) I have double-dug in my compost! [have been taking the kitchen scraps, veg/fruit only except for washed egg-shells, out to compost in 15-gal buckets- works pretty well- a layer of kitchen scraps with a layer of leaves/dead nasturtium vines/grass cuttings- the worms found the buckets ( Read more... )