by Dawn | Dec 30, 2012 | food, politics, Rhode Island, satire, sustainability, Uncategorized
Yesterday morning seemed to be a good time to reflect about my twenty years in Rhode Island. I was driving to an appointment I inadvertently scheduled for next Saturday, making me seven days and ten minutes early, when all of a sudden a rusty-red truck cut me off,...
by Dawn | Nov 25, 2012 | family, food, organization, satire, simplicity, sustainability
I have no common sense. If Thomas Paine gave me an autographed copy of his opus, I’d still lack common sense. Some would say this makes me creative. People like me would say this, for example. Others would say this makes me a disaster of epic proportion waiting...
by Dawn | Nov 23, 2012 | family, food, organization, satire, simplicity, sustainability
Thanksgiving snuck up on me. It was a busy year–buying and selling a house, doing the staging, showing, and construction leading up to the sale/purchase, moving, dealing with the “finer points of education reform,” writing, creating, blogging,...
by Dawn | Nov 21, 2012 | family, music, parenting, religion, satire, simplicity, sustainability
Christmas appeared early this year in our local stores–about three weeks before the Fourth of July, I think. It’s not that I don’t love the site of a freshly-decorated fake tree with a pine-smelling air freshener trying to convince me it’s...
by Dawn | Nov 1, 2012 | family, food, nature, parenting, politics, Rhode Island, sustainability, Teaching
We got lucky. It’s post storm, and all is well here–our idea of moving inland away from things like the airport and coast were excellent ideas. The idea of trying to get off the grid immediately–at least as much as possible, has paid off in spades....
by Dawn | Oct 29, 2012 | food, Rhode Island, satire, sustainability
Coffee has a special place in Rhode Island. Coffee milk is the state drink. Dunkin Donuts, once regional, went from a local caffeine fix to a national institution. “America Runs on Dunkin.” And yes it does. Even though Rhode Island has been surpassed by...
