So there I was last Tuesday night, sprawled on my couch after a long day rewiring a commercial kitchen, binge-watching some nature documentary in crystal-clear 4K. You know how it…
About three years ago, I learned the hard way that being good at electrical work doesn't automatically make you smart about protecting your house from Mother Nature's tantrums. We had…
I need to come clean about something that's been bothering me for months now. Here I am, a 68-year-old woman who lectures people about unnecessary packaging and drives everyone crazy…
You know that feeling when you’re standing there feeling all virtuous about your eco-friendly choices and then reality smacks you in the face? Yeah, that happened to me about six…
You know, when you’re going through your deceased husband’s belongings, you find yourself thinking about waste in ways you never expected. I spent months after Robert died in 2019 sorting…
When our fifteen-year-old gas water heater started making sounds like a dying whale last winter, I knew we were in trouble. My wife found me in the basement at 6…
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Had an interesting conversation last week with my neighbor Tony while we were both out working on our trucks in the alley behind our houses. Tony's a UPS driver, been…
So my brother-in-law Rick cornered me at my daughter's soccer game last weekend, super excited to tell me about his new Tesla Model Y. Rick's the kind of guy who…
You know how sometimes one random conversation completely derails your weekend plans? That's basically what happened when my neighbor mentioned she'd heard about something called "forest gardening" at a local…