Blame it on climate chaos. In fact, I guess you can blame everything on that. But by two pathways, climate chaos led to me acquiring the object pictured. I have been using it — a lot.

One way climate chaos lad to this is that I don’t turn my oven…

It’s been an out of control time for me foodwise. I have been meaning to start a food journal but somehow “forgetting” my appointed start date and over and over for about fifteen months. There are repeated themes to what I eat.
* Tuna salads, tuna-pasta salads, tuna “melts”
* Vegetarian…

The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (5 stars)
This book, being the long-awaited third in a trilogy, the first two volumes of which won enormous acclaim, needs no explanation for why I read it. I was one of that adoring throng. …

I am pretty late to this party. On May 22, 2021, David North of World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) published this open letter to Maria Svart, National Director of Democratic Socialists of America. (Please read it first if you haven’t already, for context.)

This is my response:

You all know…

Lisa Disch’s book, The Tyranny of the Two-Party System, after both a preface and Introduction, opens Chapter 1 — “The Politics of Electoral Fusion 1994–1997,” with the following paragraph:

The last part of this series will be somewhat specific to South Minneapolis in the Twin Cities, but since some of these services, if not the grocery store sources, are nationwide, it may be helpful for the rest of my readers.

I will be reviewing both the service and the…

I am working on Part Four of the series of reviews of meal kits, etc. This last part will be about grocery delivery services. In the process of starting out, I fell down two distinctly different rabbit holes. …