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Self-Reliant Veganism

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” When I first read “Self-Reliance,” these words sunk into me, but I must have skimmed the rest of the essay. Emerson’s style and vocabulary put me off, an experience which I attributed to 150 years of drift in the English language. The problem only got worse …

June 27, 2011 – 7:10 am | By Andrew | Posted in books, food, life | Comments Off

No More Supermarket Blues

A few weeks ago, Kim and I were riding home from our weekly trip to Fred Meyer, and I had an epiphany: I never wanted to go back. Kim wasn’t fond of Fred Meyer, either, so we hatched a plan to limit how much time we spent at the supermarket, and how much we bought, …

August 22, 2010 – 10:16 am | By Andrew | Posted in food, life | Comments Off