I find myself walking through the farmers’ market lately dreaming of strawberries and apricots. It’s only ea…
Month: February 2008
I'll Take a Lemon Drop Cocktail, Please
Every woman has a signature jewelry staple: the chunky necklace stunner, the pearls and diamonds debutante, the funky ba…
Wishing for Spring
My grandmother was an environmentalist before her time. Cultivating a bursting acre of organic flowerbeds, vegetable row…
It's Felted. It's Fuzzy. It's Green.
And it’s going to help me wage my personal war against Ugly Plastic Containers For Everything. With all the Contai…
Wet Cleaning Vs. Dry Cleaning
Would you happily put your clothes on if you knew that the material touching your skin had just been permeated with a kn…
A Grand Opening
So now you have your organic wine, misty from your thermo-electric wine cooler, and you have your recycled wine glass re…
And We Get Excited About 'New Car Smell' Because…?
New car smell. It used to be something people got excited about: that whiff of fresh-cast plastic, hot off the poly pres…
Nasturtium: the Edible Bouquet
I have a lifelong, loving relationship with the prolific nasturtium plant because my mother’s name, Ladan, means n…