Note: My emotions may not have made this my most eloquent post The story: a four-year old boy fell into the enclosure of a 17-year-old silverback gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo. When the gorilla behaved like a gorilla, dragging the boy through the moat of its enclosure, zoo officials shot and killed him. The boy … More Harambe: A Tragedy of Society
Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley…He protects us against the Wood and we are grateful, but not that grateful (p.6). In Naomi Novik’s first stand-alone fantasy novel, Uprooted, Novik brings readers into an enchanted realm of magic, love, and the darkness that resides in both. … More Uprooted by Naomi Novik, a Review
In 1961, a paper in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology laid out the seven reasons humans fear dying (p. 191): My death would cause grief to my relatives and friends. All my plans and projects would come to an end. The process of dying might be painful. I could no longer have any experiences. … More Smoke Gets In Your Eyes & Other Lessons From the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty: A Review
Mr. W. and I have decided to take up canning for a couple of reasons. The first reason has to do with how we cook – we are both batch cookers. Even before we met, we both fed ourselves by cooking 3 or 4 days worth of something and living on leftovers until another batch … More Adventures in Pressure Canning
Some people are like a pile of dry sticks, and it doesn’t take much to light them up – Meghan Currie, on yoga Six months ago I was just waking from a period of depression when I found the Yoga With Adriene website and committed myself to the free 30 Days of Yoga series. I’ve … More Six Months of Yoga: Observation, Transformation
At the end of June, one and a half months into my yoga journey, I bought a book called Wanderlust: A Modern Yogi’s Guide to Discovering Your Best Self by Jeff Krasno. The book provides a kind of compass for finding one’s way to a place of stillness and fulfillment from within through the practice of meditation … More Working the First Two Yamas – Ahimsa and Satya
My Second Graduation For the second time, I have completed my undergraduate degree, in the same program. As I wrote about here, I received a bachelor of arts in gender studies last spring after four years of university. Only, in order to receive that degree at that time, I actually cut a year off of … More My Second Graduation, A New Chapter, and Grounding
I don’t think it was too long after the movie came out that my parents fried up a batch of green tomatoes to be salted and dipped in sour cream. That recipe was done with a beer batter and came out absolutely delicious. This vegan version doesn’t have any beer in the batter, it’s actually … More VFGT’s (Vegan Fried Green Tomatoes)
This is fantastic. I found the original dish at minimalistbaker.com and made it immediately and it’s the closest thing to a vegan Alfredo without trouble of soaking cashews that I have found. (Don’t get me wrong, I love a good cashew Alfredo, but sometimes I don’t have the forethought to soak the nuts and I want … More Creamy Peppery Pasta with Mushrooms and Roasted Grape Tomatoes
When I made this Frittata I really had a craving for mini quiche, the kind my parents used to bake and put on a plate in the centre of the island where we would pass around a bottle of Frank’s Red Hot and eat them with our fingers. But being on a budget, I thought … More Tofu Spinach Mushroom & Sausage Frittata
Here Is Thirty 