Update: Yikes almighty. You guys are amazing, but I think we bit off more than we expected to chew (but we can chew it - yes we can!). Two-hundred of you ordered the cleansing grains special, but what I didn't count on was another 100 Etsy orders at the Crunchy Betty Natural Market. Bear with us; everything SHOULD be going out no later than Saturday. I woke up at 6:00 this morning (Tuesday) to write this - something I've been wanting to share for weeks - and spent over 6 hours on it, never ... Continue Reading
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YOUR Simply Thoughtful Steps to Change Your Life and the World
Last week, we talked about the wasteful practice of planned and perceived obsolescence. In that post, I implored you all to share your solutions for ways that we, as caring and conscious people, can help combat or at least lessen the impact of cheaply designed goods, made to be discarded.What I didn't expect was the outpouring of ideas (77 idea-packed comments); but what happens so often around here happened again. You guys came together, brainstormed, and eventually wrote THIS ... Continue Reading
The Runs In Your Pantyhose Are a Conspiracy!
We bought a new printer a few months ago. It only made sense, because the ink for my old, terminally dysfunctional printer (which started malfunctioning approximately 2.3 seconds after looking at it out of the box) was going to cost about the same as just buying a new printer. Plus or minus a farthing. Farthings, by the way, equal a haypenny and a sheckel, plus a bag of brussels sprouts. This is commonly known; look it up on any currency exchange site.The old printer is sitting in the ... Continue Reading
Humans: We’re As Dumb and As Brilliant As We’ve Ever Been
It's hard to remember what century I'm in right now. Is the medicine made of turpentine or petrochemicals? Are women striving for equality or are they striving for ... equality? Are certain aspects of healthcare about bleeding people physically or is it about bleeding people financially?Do we feed our children mercury or do we feed them high-fructose corn syrup?Instead of tidily keeping bottles of oxymel of squill and vitriol, we have bottles of cough syrup and antidepressants.Heaven ... Continue Reading
Wrinkle, Wrinkle Little Star
Here's a question for you: Do you ever think about getting older?Or, more particularly, about wrinkling? Or gray hairs? Or super saggy boobs that touch your belly button? THAT kind of getting older. Not the other kind where you start thinking about cashing in IRAs and living out of RVs half the year. You know, the anti-aging industry is a multi-multi-billion dollar industry. I think the last numbers I saw were over $80 billion a year. And as you baby boomers start ... Continue Reading
Colorado Springs on Fire
As I write this, the wind has kicked up again. Flames are still visible from my vantage point, directly outside my balcony. As I write this, the calm that we've all felt for the last 12 hours is interrupted briefly, and I remember that, while the fire is still 2 miles away from me, it's creeping ever closer to the town that my parents live in on the other side of the mountains. It's not over for all of us.Colorado Springs ... it's been on fire. If you haven't heard.At 2:30 p.m. on ... Continue Reading