A major tv media outlet is looking to:
” profile someone who is in the LA area (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) that is in process of transforming his/her life as a combined result of the economic conditions and who is taking the Dervaes’ message as the inspiration for that transformation. The more radical the [...]
Wintr, that is. Yesterday, we were baking under a hot sun with temperatures in the 80’s and slightly dry Sana Anna wind. Towards evening, you could feel the shift in the wind (funny how you sense the smallest change). Waking up this morning, I found it cool and cloudy! By afternoon it was raining – pouring, [...]
Another busy week of harvesting and preserving in our efforts to bring food security closer to home.
While the kitchen is hub for the harvest happenings and we gals hang out with the likes of Ms Guava and Mr Pepper, outside we shift gears into a fall garden mode.
In the kitchen, since we had an abundance [...]
Everything seemingly is spinning out of control
Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.
Horatio Alger, twist in your grave.
The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the American psyche [...]
