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CSA Box Adventures: Week 1

April 27, 2012 Cooking Adventures, Foodie, Vegetarian No comments

CSA Box - Inside


The other week I started a CSA  subscription (more information on Local Harvest) with Farm Fresh To You (FFTY).  I had actually purchased it as a Groupon a few months earlier, but I never got around to setting it up.  Since I became a vegetarian a couple of months ago, it seemed like a reasonable thing to start.  While not a replacement for my grocery shopping, I’ve decided to do my meal planning around my box and document it here.  I think it will also help to chronicle my new journey as a vegetarian.

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Remembering Shakespeare: Advocating Arts in Education

April 24, 2012 Life Stories, Thoughts 2 comments

William ShakespeareOn William Shakespeare’s birthday (April 23rd*), I thought about the impact of Shakespeare in my life. Although I majored in English (British Literature emphasis) and took an excellent college class on his works, my most memorable experiences with “the Bard” were in junior high and high school – and it had nothing to do with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes.

I was in the GATE program (Gifted and Talented Education) where select public school students identified as gifted are given educational opportunities they wouldn’t have otherwise.  The California Department of Education describes that

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These Aren’t My ‘Girls’: Thoughts on Diversity in Media

April 23, 2012 Television, Thoughts One comment

HBO

In all honesty, I wasn’t all that intrigued to watch HBO’s Girls until after reading Jenna Wortham’s Where (My) Girls At? and her discussion about the show’s lack of diversity.  But I gleaned from the article that there were good points to the show, accurate reflections of the twenty-something millenials bracket in which I belong.  So I tuned in to better understand if stories and identifiable characters could overcome these issues.

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“I wish I had spent more time with you.”

April 18, 2012 Life Stories One comment

I just wrote this on my friend’s wall: “I wish I had spent more time with you.”

My friend from high school Carolina passed away on Saturday.  I wrote this poem “Star Bright” about remembering her memory, but it was also about not remembering.

But in truth
Offline
We rarely crossed paths
And I do not remember
The last time I saw you
Face-to-face

I don’t remember the last time I saw her.  Even if someone told me what/when it was, I don’t think I could really confirm that it was the last time.  We interacted online – liking statuses, making comments – and while I’m glad we always stayed connected…it’s not the same, y’know?

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Vegetarian Laments

March 26, 2012 Foodie, Vegetarian 3 comments

Some of you might remember that I did the 30 Day of GOOD Challenge to be a Vegetarian several months ago.  A few weeks ago I decided to try to be a vegetarian “fo’ realz” – for a number of reasons, but primarily because I was going to read Jonathan Safron Foer’s Eating Animals only to think that if I read it, I’d be a vegetarian based on what I already know about the meat industry – and based on that logic, I figured I might as well be one.

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