Imagine that! A blog post with no accompanying eye candy! Today we look at the written (or more accurately, typeset) word. I’ve said the blog is all about writing practice, and I’m coming up on my 500th post. I’ve noticed…
Yearly Archives: 2011
Are Humans Driving Themselves to Extinction?
My interest in the environment began in 10th grade with an environmental science class. Our teacher had us planting trees in the park, brought in guest speakers from the local power plant and county waste plant, and taught us that…
Handmade Dinner in the Trash
Let’s start with the punchline and work backwards. Oh look! I see someone’s healthy spaghetti dinner in the trash! My wife made spaghetti with grilled eggplant and spinach last night and, expecting some pushback from Child Harbat, spaghetti and meatballs…
What’s Handmade These Days?
Have I made anything by hand recently? Why yes, thanks for asking. I made a repair. Plumbing, to be precise. After a day at work where our office toilets stopped flushing down and began flushing up, causing our alley and…
Add Some Fat
The left side of my jaw is still sore from a bread-related incident two weeks ago. Maybe it was because I was in a bad mood. Maybe it was because I chomped down on a piece of sourdough bread with…
Comic Con 2011
Going to Comic Con is like eating a handful of Skittles while plummeting down the biggest drop on a roller coaster with a rock band playing “The Final Countdown” at full volume in the seats behind you. At the time…
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Heroes of Comic Con
One of the many perks of living in San Diego is Comic Con, the largest pop culture convention in the world. My wife and I took Child Harbat on Sunday, the last day of the convention. The place was still…
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Tomato Sauce: It’s a Grind
Summer brings a bounty of food from the garden. Our first year we had so much zucchini I wanted to shoot myself in the face if I had to come up with one more novel way to camouflage it in…
Eyes are the Windows of the Soul
Child Harbat is beginning to take her art seriously. At the ripe old age of 3 ½ she’s finally “applying herself” and “taking things seriously”. By this I mean she’s actually sitting on her rear end to undertake an activity…
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