Half and Whole

On Friday, there was a repeat episode of Oprah about sperm donor children. Some of them seek out their biological fathers. Some feel a sense of loss, a sense of incompleteness, in not knowing that half of themselves. One woman wasn’t even told that her dad wasn’t her father until she was twenty-seven years old.
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It’s Hip(pie) to be Square

Part of me is amused by the fact that there’s so much potential for getting on everyone’s nerves with my newfound observations about eco-friendly shit. Part of me finds irony in caring about the future of this planet when humanity, on a whole, pisses me off. TLo phrased it well when she said that, while it’s true that the earth is going to survive whatever we do to it, we most likely will not.

Waste not, want not

Lately I’ve been talking about waste - waste of television, waste of money, waste of plastics/recyclables, waste of anger and fear and worry, etc. Of course, the alleged laws of attraction told me to TiFaux Oprah today (believe it or not, I don’t do that all the time). The topic? Wasteful families and how you can change.

Meet the new fear, same as the old fear

What started as me laughing at the anti-Oprah crew turned into a rant against fundies. Must be my ego talking again. (My copy of A New Earth should be here any day now, though, so I’m not worried.)

Water, water everywhere

How are you supposed to get your eight 8oz glasses of water with all the plastic guilt and filter fear and crazy ass questions going green raises, anyway?

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