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Wednesdays

July 8th, 2010 by J.

What do you do on Wednesdays? 
We hang around and hand out vegetables.
Van Weldon from Wood Duck Farm started a CSA last year.  The farm is in Cleveland—about fifty miles north of town.   This is a little far to pick up some groceries so Joe, Van’s driver, delivers the weekly shares to various points around [...]

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Enough? Enough.

June 20th, 2010 by J.

eel•water•rock•man from Orion Magazine on Vimeo.
A multimedia presentation about the last man on the East Coast who still fishes for eels with an ancient stone weir, made in collaboration with Orion contributor and artist/author James Prosek.

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Running

May 29th, 2010 by Matt · 2 Comments

(A Post by Matt)
I’ve been running recreationally for a good decade now – not a lot at a time, and not that fast, but enough to keep some basic level of fitness. I prefer bicycling for its sheer enjoyment factor, but running takes less time and less equipment. Like so many other things, [...]

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Pasty white.

May 24th, 2010 by J.

That’s how we look when we’re out at the beach.  It’s because we use mineral sunscreens, loaded with titanium oxide (you’ll see this in makeup) and zinc oxide (the stuff in diaper cream).  With our big floppy hats, SPF clothing, and ghostlike complexions, fashionable we are not.  But neither are we sunburned.  Skin cancer, you’re [...]

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Watch this; there’s nothing good on TV, anyway

May 20th, 2010 by J. · 3 Comments

I was trying to settle Carmen down a little bit this afternoon.  She didn’t sleep well last night and by lunch she was picking at her sandwich and wailing at the slightest misfortunes.  We rocked and snuggled downstairs while she tossed and turned, searching for sleep.  I checked the clock and wondered how to best [...]

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Everything we don’t know

May 12th, 2010 by J.

Superficially, the world has become small and known. Poor little globe of earth, the tourists trot round you as easily as they trot round the Bois or round Central Park. There is no mystery left, we’ve been there, we’ve seen it, we know all about it. We’ve done the globe, and the globe is done. [...]

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New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer

May 6th, 2010 by J.

The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.
The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday, warning that our lackadaisical approach to regulation may have [...]

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