Posts Tagged ‘anna is a hippie

May Day

In: Garden

1 May 2011

(warning: this story is not for the feint of skin conditions) So for good luck, on May Day, one is supposed to go out and frolic and wash your face with the May morning dew. This is supposed to ensure beautiful, radiant skin all year. I figure if getting up early enough to take a [...]

UNLESS

In: soapbox

22 Apr 2011

*crossposted from Seven Deadly Divas* Forty-ish years ago, a senator by the name of Gaylord Nelson (Wisconsin) organized a nationwide environmental teach-in to help educate children and the population about environmental concerns. This was called Earth Day, and the first year saw about 20 million people participating. Now, around 500 million people will “participate” in [...]

The Best Soap Ever

In: Random

11 Apr 2011

*crossposted from Seven Deadly Divas* Back when I was in college, I decided to start growing out my hair. On a long hair care board, I ran across a discussion of something called a “shampoo bar”. My hair is somewhere between wavy and curly, extremely fine, and relatively thin, so I have to be pretty [...]

(This is kind of a rant. Apologies. I don’t really offer a lot of solutions here, because I just … well, I don’t have them. But knowing about them is a start, even if the only thing I can do this week is choose to have hummous and tabbouleh for dinner (homemade and, as much [...]


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NaBloPoMo 2011

NaBloPoMo 2011

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