Do you buy to buy? Think about it. If you see something you like, do you stop and say, well I really don’t need it even though you can afford it? Don’t feel bad. Lots of people feel the same way especially if you are spending it for others. So, much that despite high unemployment [...]
November 2010
My friend, Burton, sent this to me in an email a couple days before Thanksgiving. I reprinted it because no matter how lousy your year has been, if you can say you are thankful for any of the below, you are blessed. Life stuck in the Minutia? Sometimes, we get so caught up in our [...]
As winter approaches, so does my desire for comfort food: A hearty soup, warm bread, and buckwheat and honey pancakes. You haven’t lived unless you have eaten buckwheat pancakes. I am not talking about 1/2 buckwheat and 1/2 awful white flour. 100% buckwheat, baby. 100% awesomeness. Breakfast Food for Dinner. Sticks to Your Ribs. How many of you eat [...]
I love my backyard garden and treat all my plants as my children. (My kids think I love my garden more than them.) My four kids are now men children, and don’t need that day to day tear wiping, codling, or cuddling that they did when they were younger. I miss those days and have [...]
The first time I laid eyes on a NanaWall door system, it was love at first site. NanaWall door products bring the outside in with a push of the collapsible door via its open glass wall technology. Think of a wall full of windows that with ease opens your home or business to the outside. [...]
I usually do not post on Saturday, but
Can you all say, “Move that Bus!” Today on Green Talk is the big reveal of how Lighting Science’s EcoSmart LEDs looked in my recessed cans. Just so the rest of you are not left in the dark (sorry about the pun), let me shine some light on the EcoSmart LEDs. Home Depot approached me [...]
You know what I hate about Daylight savings time? It gets dark by 4:30 and I have to turn my lights on. Not only do I dislike the “unnatural light,” but I hate how my electric bill increases. Flicking the switch pains me. When Home Depot asked me to review their EcoSmart LED recess lights, I was ecstatic but [...]
Photo by Fernando de Sousa. Drum roll, please. The Green News this week is a mix of green items from peel and stick panels, Toyota EV battery recycling to the future of supplements in Europe. Read on. Peel n Stick Panels If You Use Herbs and Supplements, You’ve Been Betrayed by Lawmakers. A HIGHLY URGENT [...]








