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Comment on Guest Post: Week 2, Plastics by Natalia Kay

Natalia Kay — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:51:14 +0000

just a note on shampoos–there is a local company that makes shampoo bars. no bottles! no plastic! and the shampoo is pretty fantastic. it can be found at New Seasons

Comment on Week 4: Dining Out – Epilogue by Simone

Simone — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:38:32 +0000

Those weird things are patty pan squashes. You can cook them like zucchini. You’ve actually had them before…and they are really easy to grow yourself!

Comment on Week 4: Dining In Prologue by Mingie Sirignano

Mingie Sirignano — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:06:01 +0000

….I love this…. !!!

Comment on Week 4: Dining In Prologue by Renee Bianchi

Renee Bianchi — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:28:37 +0000

Reading your blog is amazing. It is causing me to do a lot of rethinking, also. I am so grateful for this particular blog in my life. Thank you.

Comment on Week 4: Dining In Prologue by Kina

Kina — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:09:37 +0000

The chili was AWESOME that you made last night….and I”m very much looking forward to spending this evening with you. As someone who does not really cook…and who does not like to cook…and LOVES when others cook for me…it makes me that much more happy to add you to my list of “friends that cook for me”….I am honored

Comment on Week 2, Day 3: Scale of 1 to 10 by Pyx

Pyx — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:03:35 +0000

This reminds me very strongly of this article I read about the guilt industry. It's a really interesting analysis of the way that guilt is used and played upon, and how damaging it is, at the end of the day.

Comment on Week 2, Day 2: Careful What You Ask For! by Pyx

Pyx — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:56:50 +0000

Wow, what a day! Guess that\’s what they mean by \’throwing you in at the deep end\’, eh?

Comment on Week 2, Day 1: Remembering My Roots by Pyx

Pyx — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:54:34 +0000

You know, reading this entry reminded me, strongly, of one of the things that surprised me most of my trip to the US a few years ago, which was the relative price of foods. You see, while, of course, eating organic is a relatively pricey thing here, learning to cook and eat well on fresh veggies and whatnot was, originally, for me, a way of living on very little money. I remember being very broke, not being able to afford anything processed, and learning how to make my own meals from what fresh veggies and giant bags of rice and beans and whatnot I could afford instead.
And then a few years later I found myself in your lovely city, picking up some veggies to make dinner for the people I was staying with.. and realising that making dinner was going to be way, way more expensive than throwing something processed together. It was a shock! I’d always seen processed-vs-fresh as being a trade-off between money and time, or at least similar money vs far better food, but here I was in the US, realising that putting in the extra time was costing me way more money than doing things the other way ’round! It was kind of a shock to realise how much more privileged being able to afford the time, energy and the money to eat fresh, healthy foods was there, versus the still-present privilege of simply having the time and energy to do that here.

Comment on Week 1, Epilogue: Cutting the Cord by Pyx

Pyx — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:41:28 +0000

Awesome!
Also, I don’t tend to watch TV either all that much- prefer my media to come from this glowybox here instead of the one in the corner- and I get all my news from the interwebs as well. And, having spent a summer dissertating on the things, I believe I can say with absolute conviction that aljazeera.net/en is absolutely the best place on the interwebs to go for awesomely balanced and sensible and thorough news. Also, they do fantastic documentaries. Probably not so useful for the local stuff, but they rock for the global fix

Comment on Week 2, Day 3: Scale of 1 to 10 by kelly

kelly — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:05:55 +0000

Stacy, you are amazing!! I was just sitting here on my comfy couch drinking tea feeling sorry for myself for not getting enough house work done yesterday, for not quitting smoking yet and for not using that elliptical in the corner. Then you go and post (or i finally read) and well …SHIT. I HAVE a fucking corner for that (really expensive) piece of equipment! And running water and honey! And a refrigerator full of food . And heat! And a damn laptop, electricity and WIFI!!!! I’m like the luckiest girl in the world… xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo