Check With Your Doctor: the Hypocrisy of Our Current Health Care Policy
“Be sure to check with your doctor”; oh, you don’t have a doctor? Then die. Quietly – please. (One of our nervier congressmen actually uttered something very similar on the floor of the House of Representatives this spring during the…
Please Can We Create a Sensible Recycling Method for Supermarket Vegetable Waste?
Because of our perverse American insistence on spotless, wrinkle free vegetables supermarket vegetable departments throw out garbage cans full of good produce everyday. Yesterday morning I went shopping at the Barracks Road Kroger in Charlottesville. To get to the jicima…
Making your own Pomegranate Juice!
Now is the time to plan for the fall harvest of pomegranates. There comes a time each fall when the new harvest might sell for as little as $1 apiece for big juicy fruit. Once the sweet tart red seeds…
The Value of Self-reliance vs the Ideology of Self-sufficiency
None of us are self sufficient. We all need somebody! Despite the often nostalgic retro-interpretations (our idealization of Little House on the Prairie comes to mind!) Americans weren’t self sufficient in the Colonial past, the Revolutionary Era nor the long…
Schools Walking: A Practical Way to Exercise With Our Children
Over and over I read about how we MUST get our children away from the television and doing regular exercise. This at a time when many kids no longer have scheduled physical education classes during the school day and to…
The fun of interviews and good press!
I’ve been very fortunate this summer with several lovely articles and interviews in local and regional news venues. Living by Hand – VirginiaLiving.com Source: virginialiving.com Our experience with ducks was profiled in C’ville Weekly’s ABODE: http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=1990603072856470&ShowArticle_ID=11800408104112175 Enjoy!!