If you were gearing up to have a Celiac’s test, what would you eat to make sure you were getting a fair amount of gluten leading up to the test? I would eat (and did!) biscuits and gravy. When I was a kid, my dad was the king of biscuit making. He’d just roll out […]
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Celebrating a Vegan, Eco-Friendly Winter Wedding
Source: Gown by Lindee Daniel; hanging lights photo by Tiger Shout; twig lights photo from Wedding Bee One nice thing about having finished teaching last quarter is that I was able to catch up on some of my guest posting commitments at other blogs. You can head on over to The Kind Life today to […]
Book Review of “Zooland: The Institution of Captivity”
Thank you all for your thoughtful responses to the post on marriage and childrearing. I’d love to hear more thoughts on this subject from everyone as it can be topic that draws out strong opinions one way or another. And I’ll definitely be posting another post on this topic soon. In the meantime, though, I […]
Thoughts on Marriage & Childrearing (Part One)
When I was growing up, I always thought that someday I would get married and have kids. That’s what most people around me thought because that’s the dominant discourse we are exposed to—we grow up, go to college, get married, buy a house, have a child or two, raise them, send them to college and perpetuate the cycle. This is familiar, of […]
New Blog Design
I’m trying out this new design of the blog. I still want to tweak some font, colors, etc. But I’d really like to hear your feedback. Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Specific critiques? Thoughts? Requests? Thank you and Happy New Year!
Plans for 2013
On the last day of 2012, I’m turning my thoughts to the new year. Okay, who are we kidding? To be honest, I’m a big-time future planner and I’ve been thinking about the new year for a while now. Memory Jar The memory jar is a thing I saw floating around the internet last year or […]
Reflections on 2012
As we near the end of the year, I’ve been thinking about what kind of year 2012 has been. For me, 2012 has been a year of pondering and growing up in many ways. The beginning of the year was about expanding my horizons, taking on new projects, getting myself out into the world more […]
Rajma (Indian Kidney Bean Stew)
I hope you all had good holidays! I’m coming off of several very relaxing, restorative days and now I’m trying to get back into the rhythm of getting work done. I have to write a chapter of my dissertation in the next three weeks (no small feat) so that I can workshop it with our animal studies […]
Holiday at Home with the Pups
Eric and I spent the weekend in some much-needed relaxation and time at home on the couch with the animals. The quarter is over and my grades are all submitted and Eric has been working hard at work on a number of projects. I think we’ve both been a bit burned out and decided to […]
Help to End Child Slavery
Chocolate is a luxury many of us enjoy quite a lot. For years, I’ve been making a concerted effort to buy ‘Fair Trade Certified’ chocolate, coffee, tea and sugar with the aim of ensuring that producers around the world get a fair wage for the products they grow. Thus, you can imagine my horror when […]
