Let’s face it… Neither you nor I can think of a single thing we don’t like about Kelly Ripa. I mean, come ON! Witty, freakin’ adorable, snazzy dresser (but not too showy!)– she is the ultimate Gracie Allen to Regis’s 958 year-old George Burns.
That’s One Cupcake with a Cause!
When I started seeing uber-Kelly in the [...]
Photographer David Ottenstein Stops Time in Iowa
The last thing I expected to see when I went to a gallery meetup at the Ridgefield Guild of Artists on Saturday was HOME.
The Radius 2008 Exhibition featured the best of their emerging artists from the last 10 years, and one of those was photographer David Ottenstein, originally of [...]
So we made it through some pretty brainy landscapes this week in the pursuit of pondering the end of 2008, and the dawn of HOPE, 2009.
To be sure you aren’t taxed too much, I leave you to think about this simple yet all-important issue, one that often doesn’t get near enough attention in the season [...]
In the middle of my procrastination/break from grading, I visited my email and Google reader and found good stuff from two different women in my life… oh they make me SO crazy!
First, there’s HEATHER! Heather the green wonder-mama, now appearing in ANOTHER feature near you! I’ve done some freelance work for Heather, so she’s nice [...]
Our Farm Table, by David Ellison of Lorimer Antiques
We recently had our “new” dining room table delivered to us. It was the last piece of the renovation puzzle in our “green” family room. It really is green… the walls are not only painted green, but were painted with low VOC paint (low harmful fumes) from [...]
My husband, maybe to mock my attachment to my typewriter, or maybe just to give me the good news, sent me this article, today. It breaks the much-awaited news (at least around our place) that two of the greatest entertainment inventions: TiVo and Netflix, are going to join forces.
This is akin to the Wonder [...]
A Befuddled Poem About the Fact That I Rode 55 Miles on a Bike in One Day
by Elizabeth Howard
My butt hurts still today,
But not as much as my knees do.
Which goes to show you…
Having all that padding isn’t
Such a bad thing after all.
I’m brain fried, 24 hours later,
With zero comprehension
Of time or distance,
Though I can [...]
I got trapped out on my screened porch the other day during a very bad storm. I locked myself out of my house. My neighbors on both sides were home and they had keys but my trees were casting their branches off into the wind. I huddled in the corner of the porch and hoped [...]
Or… Where to Find the Best Seat on Earth
I really dug Eric Nuzum’s theory on crazy people riding the bus on a new favorite blog, The Prince of Petworth.
My pal Cathy lives in this area of Washington D.C. and introduced me to this fab blog about a, at best, up and coming, and at worst, [...]
Or… How To Make Dinner ala Costco
One of the side effects of living overseas for three years is that you get out of the all-American habit of buying food in BULK.
Large supermarkets are not as rare over there as they once were, but Europeans still tend to shop for the day, picking up ingredients for [...]
Brought to you by The Letter “R”… as in Reuse.
It’s really hard to not shop.
This is mostly because, I am discovering, our American life is not truly designed for things like:
Freedom
Justice
Democracy
Share and share alike
but is actually designed for things like:
Credit card debt
Paris Hilton
Bud Light Ads
I think this is primarily why we all sort of [...]
Who doesn’t love a hero? And after a gorgeous performance in Super Bowl XLII, Eli Manning deserves to be one.
So, with 2008 marked already as the Year of Green, I can only humbly ask that our first hero of the year, Giants quarterback Eli Manning, give BACK to Cadillac the keys to their hybrid Escalade [...]
Sim Wong Hoo, I’m Coming for YOU!
This guy pictured here is the CEO of Creative Technology. My plan is to get an interview with him and pin him down. Why?
I have an mp3 player.
It isn’t an iPod, it’s one of HIS mp3 players, a Creative Nomad Muvo2. I bought it about five years ago. It’s really [...]
Or, What to Buy A Woman, Any Woman and She’ll Like it, I Swear
If you are madly last-minute shopping for ANY woman in your life, just save yourself the hassle and buy this bag from Changehandbags.com.
At 50 bucks (now don’t wince… you’re up against it, brother) it’s pricier than a pair of earrings from Target, [...]
Or… Moving to the Beat of My Own Green Drummer
Nothing gives you a good ol’ kick in the tush like hanging around with people who are really making things happen.
At Green Drinks last night, I met more than a few people who are busy living a green life: they own an organic food business, publish [...]
