It’s winter, not the high season for northern beaches But the winter beach is beautiful and interesting. The slope is steeper, the colors are different. The sharp wind wakes you up. The high tides (King Tides, these days), crashing waves, and steady breezes of winter move more than grains of sand and your whipping hair [...]
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Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi – No Spoilers in this Un-Review
Lately my reading has listed heavily toward young adult fiction. Never mind why. All you need to know is that the latest representative of this genre to sail through here was Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. The moment I heard that title – over the phone, from my daughter – I knew what the story [...]
Design can save the earth
I don’t drink Coke, or anything else with bubbles. It’s not a moral decision, I just hate the way bubbles make my nose feel. I make an exception for tonic water which, when properly diluted with gin and lime, doesn’t bother me at all. I also buck up and order water con gas when I [...]
Withdrawl – from plastic and chemical dependency
In my ongoing effort to stop buying plastic containers and chemical products I decided to first try an alternative shampoo and went searching on the web for solid bar types. On Grist I found a column about less toxic shampoos but they all came in plastic. But in the comments on that article I found [...]
