I’m a big fan of the idea of thrifting, especially for clothes, and I’ve even given my kids thrift-store gift cards (because they were into it as well), but I always ran into a road block personally: finding thrifted clothes in plus sizes was not easy. SOLUTION: ThredUp I’d heard of ThredUp, an online women’s clothing thrift store where you… Read More
De-Dander Dipping for the Holidays!
Do you have family or friends coming for the holidays who are allergic to your pets? This post is for you! Meet my geriatric and bothersome (but beloved!) cats, Ninja and Techy: The whole family loves our goofy cats, but my three kids, once they moved out of the house, found that (to varying degrees) they were all suddenly allergic… Read More
Climate-Conscious Gift Giving
In case you didn’t know, I have a podcast/substack! Bright Green Futures is all about lifting up stories about a more sustainable and just world and talking about the struggle to get there. So it’s mostly about stories and climate stuff, both of which inspired me to put together a Climate-Conscious Gift Guide for the Holidays. Subscribe to the substack… Read More
Make Something BETTER
I’ve been processing a lot since the election. My latest take is that radical disruption often opens up the possibility for change that you normally really would not make. Things you’ve been putting off. Ways of limping along that worked okay. But disruption shoves you out of the comfort zone and makes you do stuff—and sometimes that stuff is really… Read More
Backup Power/Battery Options for the Climate Crisis
I’m a huge advocate for solar and will make a separate post for that (SOLAR: How to Get Started and Why You Should), but whether you have solar or not, having backup power is going to be more important going forward (especially with a climate denier in the White House not only eager to make the climate crisis worse, he’s… Read More
I Guess Fascism is the New COVID
Woke up in a cold terror last night again. That smiling White House photo with Biden and Trump has done more to destroy my faith in democracy than almost anything else. I expected the Rs to fall in line; I did not expect the Dems and the media to normalize fascism. I know they’re doing it to preserve “faith” in… Read More
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