“Pause — are they the things on the dog’s feet?” Mahamudi asked me last night. We were doing our twice-weekly reading lesson here at my house. He arrived in the U.S. from Somalia three years ago. Now he is 14, and like his parents, he never learned to read or write in his native language.
“No, [...]
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My Favorite Summer Entertainment
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · entertainment
The Very Best Diet, Part III
August 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity
I’ve written in recent months about how a low-car diet and a low-TV diet can help us with our national obesity problem and also our carbon obesity (a new phrase I just coined). I practice both these diets. The new diet I’ll add to the mix today is an advertising diet: limiting our exposure to [...]
Tags: advertising·carbon footprint·diet·economics·global warming·green living·life·obesity·retail·thrift·TV
