Last Wednesday morning, I’m standing in my kitchen at 7 AM, staring down at my twenty-year-old coffee maker that just…
I’m standing in the produce aisle at Shaw’s last Tuesday, holding an avocado and doing math in my head. The…
My old computer sounds like it’s about to take flight these days. You know that wheezing, grinding noise when the…
Okay, so picture this: me, twenty-two years old, living in Austin on a nonprofit salary, standing in my tiny apartment…
You know, I never thought much about where food comes from beyond the grocery store until I started working on…
About three years ago, I had what I can only describe as a minor existential crisis in someone else’s living…
You know, I never thought much about what was in swimming pool water until my arthritis started acting up worse…
Four years ago, I would have laughed if someone told me I’d be mixing mud with my bare feet to…
You know what they don’t tell you about those industrial-strength bathroom cleaners? They can drop you faster than a bad…
Three summers ago, I had one of those moments that makes you question everything you think you know. I’m standing…
So there I was last Tuesday night, sprawled on my couch after a long day rewiring a commercial kitchen, binge-watching…
About three years ago, I learned the hard way that being good at electrical work doesn’t automatically make you smart…
I need to come clean about something that’s been bothering me for months now. Here I am, a 68-year-old woman…
You know that feeling when you’re standing there feeling all virtuous about your eco-friendly choices and then reality smacks you…
You know, when you’re going through your deceased husband’s belongings, you find yourself thinking about waste in ways you never…