Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway – A Review
If you had asked me a year ago whether I’d be obsessively gardening now, I would have said no. I had once managed to accidentally kill bamboo. Gaia’s Garden changed all that.
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This Week In Permaculture – Week 1
Our property is at abut 6500 feet in elevation. Colorado Springs might be southern geographically, but in growing season terms it’s practically Canadian. Luckily, permaculture’s focus on perennials over annuals should help us make the best use of our shortened growing season. Here are some of the plants and animals we’re seeing in our garden now that spring has finally sproinged ^_^
“You can’t just camp here.”
It had been about a month since I started gathering coffee grounds for compost. I had gone from gas station to gas station, explaining the project and leaving them with buckets to store compostables. After a certain amount of trial and error, I had figured out that the easiest way to carry all those buckets …
Beyond The Church: An #Exvangelical “Anti-Tract”
One of the hardest parts of living in Colorado Springs is watching people around me being screwed up by abusive religious communities and feeling like there’s nothing I can do to help them. So I made a thing! This is a printable PDF (download here) that can be printed on an 11×17″ sheet of paper …
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Muslim Vocab 101
One of the frustrating aspects of watching conversations about Islam in our largely-non-Muslim society is seeing people misuse words and go uncorrected, so I wanted to go through a few of the most frequently-misused words and discuss their actual meanings. Infidel – This is a big one, and the main inspiration for this post. Living …
What We Hear When You Say That
Dear Evangelical in my life, You did it again. Maybe it was saying that you prayed that I would feel better when I said that I had a cold. Maybe it was sending me a Christmas card that was mostly Bible quotes (just in case I thought Christmas was a cultural holiday at this point …
Hurting the “Bad Guys”
Human history is full of righteous warriors who bravely faced their enemies and did battle against them, confident in the knowledge that they were Right, their enemies were Wrong, and any actions they took in their struggle were Justified. The thing is, throughout human history, most of them were wrong. We like to view history …
Science: It’s How We Know Stuff
My husband and I have an ongoing discussion/game/thought experiment about what technologies we would actually be able to bring with us if we found ourselves suddenly back in time. (Especially if we stayed in the same place and had the opportunity to warn Native tribes about what was coming) After all, neither of us knows …
The You Who Votes
It’s important to realize that the you who interacts socially with your friends and family and the you who steps into a voting booth are not separate entities. And if you claim to care about someone in the first context, you need to care about them in the second. You can’t talk about how much …
You Can’t Be Both Pro-Life and Pro-Gun
One of the amazing things about life in Colorado Springs is the seemingly endless supply of cars with bumper stickers that you’d think would be contradictory. “Respect ALL Life” on the same car as “Stay Back 100 Meters Or You Will Be Shot” (In Arabic, because why not celebrate our country’s disregard for Brown lives?) …