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Tweet This is kinda funny. It’s a post I wrote a year and a half ago, but I never published. Sounds like I’d had a lot of coffee that day. This weekend, my son’s most excellent elementary school had their annual Harvest Festival. This year, I was asked to MC the booth on mason [...] Tweet If you’re looking at this live, you’ll see that the temperature in Portland is in the mid-to-low 40s. On top of that it’s windy and rainy. Any illusion of late, late summer is brought harshly to reality if you so much as look out a window. Tonight’s garbage (and yard debris) night, and [...] Tweet
How about that for a change of pace? OK, I admit it. I’ve been gone a while. I have received, what I guess you couldn’t really describe as ‘hate mail’ but neither was it ‘fan mail’, messages to the effect that I suck for disappearing. I apologize. However, it has been an interesting month… I’ve dragged this book idea around… writing and deleting hundreds of pages (seriously)… quitting… restarting… even losing a hard-drive in the midst of all that… and coming to the conclusion that I’d just cast too wide a net. The good news is that I now have the beginnings of at least three separate books. The bad news is that I have the end of none. Let us pause for a moment of silence for my garden, the biggest victim in all this. While it hasn’t quite reverted to the state in which I found it, it is a mess. I’m sorry garden. You were good to me, and I ignored you. I promise to clean you up, plant cover crops, and give you the love you deserve next spring. OK, so, what does all this have to do with sweeteners? I’ll give you a hint: the average American eats 160 lbs. of sugar by most accounts. About 100 years ago (keeping in mind that they just released evidence of the oldest human remains from 4+ MILLION years ago), we ate 5 lbs. each. I would guess that it wasn’t too many centuries before that that we ate no added sugar. There probably wasn’t any aside from the occasional (and precious) honey, which I hesitate to add to the list because of the complexity of the stuff. Tweet Probably not. My neighbor just informed me (after I made the mistake of telling him that I was going to keep honey bees) that he has “really bad anti-falactic shock to bee stings.” I can only assume that he was asserting that he would go into anaphylactic shock if he were to be [...] Tweet I just got an email from my very nice neighbor trying to raise support for Earth Hour. Again, my blog, I get to be super-duper cynical on it. I hate this kind of thing. Earth Hour is supposed to be “a statement of concern about our planet and climate change.” So, we all [...] |
 
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