an undone calm

I want to see this movie.

I picked up one of these Snapware GlassLock containers at Bed Bath and Beyond this past weekend and I’m already smitten. Basically it functions like tupperware except it’s a glass bowl and a silicon lid. Read: no scary plastic chemicals leeching into your food, fewer disposable tupperware containers in the landfills. [...]

This is my wallpaper. Leaves + teal = obviously.
Leaves and their annual magic show color-change have always been a part of my life. As a child, there were leaf piles to play in and special detours down Persimmon Tree Road to see specific vibrant trees. Chris Van Allsburg captured the magic of [...]

If every household in the U.S. replaced one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL), it would prevent enough pollution to equal removing one million cars from the road.
My parents were here last week and helped me out with some stuff around the house, including replacing the ten or [...]

808Funk – Sunset Glow
I just watched a charming little piece of propaganda billed as a movie on HBO (The Girl in the Cafe). While the movie trailers might have you think the movie is a romantic comedy, it’s really just another plea for progressive action on poverty, debt, and trade at the G8. In [...]

I guess I must have built up a enormous amount of karmic debt by driving a premium gas guzzling SUV for the last 4 years because today, after pieces of my car were strewn about the road surface and it had to be towed on a flatbed trailer to an autobody shop, I was given [...]

A week or so ago, I read an article in the New York Times Magazine about Toxic Breast Milk. It seems that in our desire to make all the polyurethane products that we use nonflammable, we’ve actually contaminated ourselves with PDBEs (polybrominated diphenylethers). Human breast milk in this country in contaminated with levels of PDBEs [...]