Image credit: Photo by aurelio.asiain on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A Facebook friend challenged me to go vegan for Earth Day, and I decided that, since I'm already vegetarian (I eat eggs and dairy but no meat or fish), it wouldn't be much of a stretch for me to stay away from all animal [...]
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The Missing Shoe
Image credit: Photo by malik ml williams on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons We faced a major crisis recently: I couldn't find one of my son's shoes. And his shoe was not just missing, but missing at the worst possible time: moments before the bus was due to arrive. Now, it's not that Austen doesn't [...]
Ode to My Birkenstocks
They will say I love youfor your hippie cachet,and oh,that did draw me to you.You are alwaysearthy,expansive,alternative. If I wore socks(handmade,fair trade,hempand organic cotton)you would not look like sandalson the feet of some old manwith white tube socksor black dress sockspulled up,right up,to his knees. Someone once said:I don't know why Birkenstocksare suchhippie shoes.Birkenstockis just [...]
