When Karl and Floyd were still missing, before we knew the horrible truth, I found myself trying to make deals with fate. “Maybe one, but not both, no, it can’t be both of them”. Somehow it didn’t seem possible. Especially on top of all the losses the last few years have brought. It just couldn’t [...]
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In reading Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It (the companion book to the film Food, Inc.), I came across the idea of “food disparagement laws“. What’s that? Well, apparently in 13 states in the US, it’s illegal to speak badly [...]
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Well, so much for that. I was supposed to start writing something again, if just writing for the sake of writing. Six days of radio silence though, doesn’t count as a good start.
Carol Kaesuk Yoon had an interesting article in yesterday’s NY Times, about “the lost art of naming the world”. It’s a little bit [...]
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I don’t remember where I read it, but I have always been fascinated by the idea of a writer as “someone who has written today“. In a sense it’s even more true for a blogger – if you haven’t written today, if you’ve fallen out of the habit of blogging, you can’t really call yourself [...]
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