Earlier this week, I got an email from Judy at Pigs Peace Sanctuary. In case you’ve missed my other posts about it, Pigs Peace is a wonderful sanctuary for pigs (and other animals) about an hour north of Seattle. Judy emailed me with the story of Elsie, a piglet who came to Pigs Peace this week. […]
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Irish Colcannon (or Mashed Potatoes with Greens)
Just in time for St. Patrick’s day, colcannon is a traditional Irish dish made by mashing potatoes and mixing in cabbage or other greens. When I was growing up, my parents used to make colcannon, or my dad would sometimes call it ‘thump’ (a Scottish variation), with whatever greens we had around. Usually, this was […]
Random Acts of Violence/ Random Acts of Kindness
Yesterday, my mother was attacked on her way home from work. My mom walks about 4 miles to and from work every day and yesterday, she was almost home–in her own neighborhood–when a group of girls ran up behind her, hitting her from behind and shoving her down onto the pavement. Then they ran off. […]
Beacon Food Forest
This project has been a while in the making (the idea formed in 2009), but it’s finally coming to fruition (pun intended?!). In our very own neighborhood of Beacon Hill at Jefferson Park, a food forest project is being developed. What is a food forest, you might ask? According to the Beacon Food Forest site: […]
New Workout & Banana Cinnamon Chia Pudding
This morning after Eric left for work, I buckled down and tried a new workout. I’ve not been making it to the gym with the teaching schedule and everything else and have been feeling quite lazy and in need of exercise. I’ve been trying to figure out a workout that I can do quickly and […]
Joining the Resistance: Farmed Animals Making History
I thought I’d try something a bit new today, and provide an audio recording for you all. I recorded the talk I gave at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Conference in Buffalo, NY on March 4, 2012. I was in a session called “Resistance” and my talk was entitled “Joining the Resistance: Farmed Animals […]
NYC Continued…
Continuing on the recap of my NYC trip. I woke up on Saturday morning (late) and rushed to subway to try to make it to an 8:00am session at the AAG. The subject was the meat industry and it was one of the sessions I was most looking forward to attending. The ‘L’ train was […]
Peanut Butter Heaven Sandwich (or Katie’s First Date)
I really don’t know what else to call this sandwich other than to tell you it’s a little bit of heaven. I used to get a version of this sandwich at a little cafe called Molly’s in the basement of the Henry Art Gallery at the UW. There, it was called “Molly’s First Date”. I […]
Getting to NYC
Finally, back to Seattle after a week in New York City, then back to Seattle for a day, then back to Buffalo until last night. I can already feel some semblance of normal creeping back into my life (thank goodness!) but I still have a lot of catch-up to do from all of this time […]
Veganized Girl Scout Cookies
I’m sorry for the long delay between posts. I’ve been in NYC for a conference for the past week and just got back to Seattle late last night. Off to another conference for a long weekend. And then back to normal soon. Whew! Lots of report on from New York travels, academic stuff, and good […]
