Future posts will be back to diamond-cut, wholesome fare on building relationships and community and saving money and carbon emissions via energy and gas conservation. But today the addict in me has to come forward and be known. The blogger addict, the one who craves hits.
I jones for blog hits. I check my blog stats [...]
Entries Tagged as 'entertainment'
Jonesing For Hits
July 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: 97215 · carpooling · community · energy conservation · entertainment
Celebrating the Fourth, Diamond-Cut Style
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Happy Fourth of July! It’s our nation’s birthday. I’ve posted Ideas for celebrating below, based on this basic life-principle we all tend to forget:
A nation starts its life in the beginning as land, as earth — before people arrived to populate it. And that land, the soil, water and things that grow on it, are [...]
Tags: community · culture · entertainment · environment · exercise · food · green living · health · life · outdoors · simplicity
Andrew Brown, Baseball’s Cool Commuter
June 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My carpool-pals don’t just help me save gas money and carbon emissions, they also pass good information on to me. Thanks to my baseball-loving ‘pool, I’ve learned about Andrew Brown, the relief pitcher for the Oakland Athletics who uses his bicycle and BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) to get to the ballpark for [...]
Tags: carbon footprint · carpooling · climate change · culture · entertainment · environment · exercise · global warming · green living · health · life · lifestyle · outdoors · simplicity · sustainability · thrift · transportation · work
Hood To Coast
June 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Running is just about the most natural sport possible, the sport our pre-Industrial ancestors did, the one that doesn’t burn any fossil fuels. You’d think that fun in the time of global warming would make liberal use of running — and it would, but you’d need to rethink Hood To Coast.
Hood To Coast is the [...]
Tags: 97215 · carbon footprint · climate change · entertainment · environment · exercise · global warming · green living · happiness · health
Fun In The Time Of Global Warming
June 15th, 2008 · No Comments
With Summer Solstice and the first day of summer coming up on Saturday June 21, my theme this week will be earth-friendly recreation, or Fun In The Time Of Global Warming.
Professional work tends to keep us up in our heads, thinking so hard we practically get divorced from our bodies. I really hate that about [...]
Tags: 97215 · carbon footprint · carpooling · community · culture · energy conservation · entertainment · environment · exercise · global warming · green living · happiness · health · hybrids · life · lifestyle · outdoors · simplicity · sustainability · thrift
Sex And The City: A Portland View
June 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
I saw this movie yesterday, intrigued by the series’ popularity among women and how it all relates to what I call the diamond-cut life.
Fact one: I love fun as much as anyone (ask my many girlfriends). Fact two: Consumption drives global warming. Science has made this clear. While we have to consume in order to [...]
Tags: 97215 · consumption · culture · entertainment · environment · global warming · green living · happiness · life · lifestyle · sustainability
Sex And The City, Portland style
May 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Here is my Portland, Oregon response to Sex And The City: The Movie. It is Green Girls Take On CRAG. Read it to see what I mean. My Green Girls social circle has more fun and is more joyful, I suggest, than the characters in the hit HBO series.
Why do I think that? We green [...]
Tags: 97215 · consumption · entertainment · happiness · lifestyle
Death of Retail & Naked Ladies
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Short post this morning on the deaths of many retail stores recently in the U.S. First, I really feel for the people who are losing their jobs, and in many cases, their retail businesses. This is painful and scary for them, and I wish stability for all the people affected.
In the bigger picture, the [...]
Tags: 97215 · community · consumption · culture · development · economics · entertainment · happiness
The Very Best Diet, Part II
April 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Last week I named the very best diet for weight loss as being one of low car use. That’s because our bodies were designed to get us from place to place with this cool gait called walking. My husband and I share just one car, and use public transit, our feet and our bikes for many of our trips. It’s more fun, too.
What else has been rising in the
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