4 truths and a lie… The average person has 148 pieces of clothing. Clothes can take up to 40 years to decompose The amount of money people spend on clothes, footwear and jewelry each year is quivalent to the combined GDP of the 126 poorest countries in the world. Aristotle coined the phrase “does a…
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Make it a MOM-entous day
My hubby makes the same Mother’s Day joke every year. “I’d love to help you repeat the act that made you a mother in the first place”. I told him we can talk about that on any other Sunday (that’s the day each week we change the sheets anyway), but this Sunday is mine. He…
The Legend of Grandma Helen and the War on Plastic
The wise prophet Neil Sedaka once laid it out for us like this I beg of you don’t say goodbye, can’t we give our love another try? Come on, baby, let’s start anew, ’cause breaking up is hard to do Wiser words have never been spoken, so much so, that even the Partridge Family delivered…
Plastic ain’t Fantastic
You know I’m crunchy AF so it won’t shock you that my favorite holiday is Earth Day. And it’s coming up. Every year to celebrate I do something “green” and this year I’m going BIG! I’m breaking up with plastic. That’s right I’m kicking it to the curb. In a big blue bin. Here’s a…
Compassion Is In Fashion
I read a lot of things on the internet. I always stop and shake my head when I come across some sort of inspirational quote which comes from a “questionable” source. “Don’t be a Dick” – Ghandi “Send Nudes, Not Hate” – Thomas Jefferson “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope” – Sun Tzu…
Boom Boom Shake Shake the Room!
There are three words that this girl lives to hear. That’s right…Pakistan, Magnesium and Iodine. I used to think that maybe 2 of them were places that you can only get to by plane and one is something you put on cuts for some reason. As I get older (read: wiser) I have come to…
Welcome to Douchebagistan, Population: ME!
Let’s start 2017 with some definitions Goals: The result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end Selfish: Devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one’s own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others. Liquor: How a male animal cleans his mate (ok, that one might be a bit of a…
Lick it before you bite it
We all make choices every day. Even choosing not to make a choice is a choice. Most of the choices are small ones, coffee or juice, soup or salad, Polish Bike Ride or Cambodian Basket Toss, you get the idea. Sometimes we even make choices that we know aren’t going to work out well, but…