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Why I Boycott Texaco
When I was 8 years old, my mother decided it would be a good idea to put me on a bus, all alone, to take a 15 hour trip to Rutland, Vermont to visit my 18 year old sister who was living in a teepee on a hippie commune. From an adult perspective, I cannot…
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The Coffee Bandwagon
Here I am, living in Seattle, the home of Starbucks, where you can’t sling a dead cat without hitting a coffee shop, and I don’t drink coffee. I have always marched to the beat of a different drummer, but this is ridiculous. It’s like living in Boston and wearing orange on St. Patrick’s Day. You…
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Environmental Meddling
Anyone who lives in the Southeastern United States is familiar with kudzu. This amazingly insidious vine was introduced to this country by the Japanese at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and since then, according to Wikipedia, it’s been spreading at the rate of 150,000 acres annually, which seems really intimidating until you realize that…
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Embracing Negative Emotions
“Few situations –no matter how greatly they appear to demand it – can be bettered by us going berserk.” Codependent No More, Melody Beattie Most of us have been taught that there are negative and positive emotions. Anger, sadness, grief and frustration are bad. Happiness, love, joy, and bemusement are good. Because of this, we…