Dealing with High Gas Prices
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Transportation | 3 Comments »A few years ago gas prices started rising and people started noticing. Back then I was paying $2.69 and griping. Yesterday I paid $3.41. I'm starting to see more and more stories about rising gas prices, but it's curious that ...
Rummagepalooza ‘08
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Domicile | No Comments »This weekend we had our massive rummage sale. This weekend it snowed. That's the way it goes sometimes (though not usually in April). It rained and snowed and blowed all day Saturday, so we had to set up inside. We had rummage ...
“Take My Children: Just Feed Them”
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »A New York Times report from last week on the worldwide foot riots included this heart-breaking bit at the end: Meanwhile, most of the poorest of the poor suffer silently, too weak for activism or too busy raising the next generation ...
Youngstown, Ohio, Embraces Shrinkage
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Business & Marketing | 2 Comments »I love this story of Youngstown, Ohio, embracing their dwindling population and lack of growth: Youngstown, Ohio, has seen its population shrink by more than half over the past 40 years, leaving behind huge swaths of empty homes, streets and neighborhoods. Now, ...
Today’s Earth Day
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Science | 1 Comment »So today's Earth Day. What did you do to save the planet? I took the bus. OK, I'm just bragging. Being a stay-at-home/work-at-home dad I don't normally go anywhere, so taking the bus actually increased my carbon footprint/energy usage/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. Oops.
Restless Sleep and Mundane Dreams
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Daily Grind | 1 Comment »I woke up with a sore throat yesterday morning (on the most beautiful day of the year) and ended up going to bed early. A fitful sleep resulted in bizarre, weird dreams. Or rather, mundane dreams. At one point I ...
People Dying of Hunger and a Fancy New iPhone
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Society | 13 Comments »Food riots are still on my mind. Turns out I didn't have to look to broader news outlets for that breaking story, I could have just caught up on the 1,000+ unread items in my Google Reader. If I did, ...
Happenings in Ethiopia
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »With our upcoming adoption we've been paying more and more attention to Ethiopia. So it's been a bit discouraging to read about two bombings earlier this week and another one last month. And though I didn't realize it at the ...
Sometimes Business Growth is Business Greed
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Business & Marketing | No Comments »I'm always harping on the idea that businesses don't have to grow. The U.S. economy doesn't have to be growing by leaps and bounds to be healthy. Sometimes things shrink. It might be painful, but it's not the end of ...
Stopping AIDS, Saving Children
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »This story from a woman who spent time at an orphanage for HIV positive children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is amazing: Once they started getting the ARVs that were needed and at a fair price, children stopped dying. And so money ...
