What Makes Me Laugh

On our refrigerator is a New Yorker cartoon with a woman sitting on a couch, talking to a man standing in the corner of a living room. The caption says, “After your tomato plants, you have nothing left over for me.” We laugh about this cartoon but there is a grain of truth there. Doug [...]

If I were to describe our life in August  in one word it would be: Mania. It’s the time of year when you arrive home from work to 20 pounds of scrubbed cucumbers, and stand bleary-eyed past midnight, stuffing the last of the cukes in jars with garlic and dill to bathe them with boiling [...]

  When it comes to environmental claims by companies, you can usually color me a little cynical. Don’t get me wrong, I still buy as many organic, sustainable, fair trade products as possible, but I know that some companies simply look at is an eco-marketing scheme, not a real commitment to the environment.  About eight [...]