>My cohousing community, FrogSong, is mentioned on p.85 of Sunset magazine’s October 2009 issue!
>I’m taking a great Business to Business Marketing class with Cynthia Riggs and Roberta Ryan, two women I met via Connections: A Forum for Women in Business. What I am loving about these two is that they combine real business knowledge with a commitment to Right Livelihood. Our homework this month is to ask ten […]
>I watched the Peace in 5 Years video and unexpectedly wept….this is an idea surely no crazier than JFK’s “a man on the moon in ten years!” Now I must contemplate how I can accept this challenge in a deeper way…the bit of irony here is that I just came home from teaching a conflict […]
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>A colleague sent me a notice about an upcoming showing of the documentary film In Transition: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience. I went online to watch the trailer. What struck me was how somber and gloomy everyone looked, even while their words were talking about creating a new, wonderful culture that people would want […]
>All the screaming and outrage at recent town hall meetings has really got me down. As a society, are we now completely unable to disagree in a civil way? Even as I try to utilize the listening and communication skills that are the way I make my living, I sometimes find myself acting out a […]
>Just found this hilarious quiz linked from Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For website (my favorite cartoon of all time). My results: Which Dyke to Watch Out For Are You?created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Lois You are Lois, the ladykiller who’s mellowed into an awesome, loyal girlfriend. Give yourself permission to read the […]
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>Oh. My. Gawd. LibraryThing. An easy easy way to catalog your books online…and do all kinds of fun things, like see what other people who have your books are reading…kinda like a more interactive Amazon.com. One fun feature is the Anti-suggester. You know how Amazon will tell you, “People who bought X also bought Y?” […]
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>As part of the 23 Things challenge, I frittered away some time on Twitter. Folks randomly post a short blurb about what they’re doing at the moment. I just don’t get the point. There’s a feature where you can have twitters sent to your cell phone. There are some news feeds so you could set […]
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>After spending several months trying to adhere to a 100-mile diet, I started to consider the source of the food I feed my cats. (This reflection was also spurred by the melamine scare.) I came across a website by a proponent of the BARF diet (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food). Cats, after all, are obligate carnivores. […]
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>(I feel a ridiculous need to be clever with titles…but what can you do with a post that solely exists to prove that I accomplished items 6, 7, and 8 on the 23 Things challenge?) I fooled around with RSS feeds and set up a few on Bloglines. I added my favorite comic, Dykes to […]
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