New Year’s Musings: Where Will You Be This Time Next Year?
New Year’s is traditionally a time we resolve to ‘do better’ on all sorts of accounts. But, as we saw in yesterday’s post, in the part about resolutions, we’re not very good about keeping them. Or do the stats really say something different than the pollsters conclude?Read More →
Happy New Year: What Can We Expect In 2022?
I’ve touched on official expectations for the future in a number of recent posts. And they have generally been dark. What can we, as individuals, do to make the new year better for ourselves and those we love? Some elders of the tribe counsel a stoic philosophy: ‘Keep Calm And Carry On’…Read More →
New Approach To Composting: Sort It, Cook It, Grind It…
Most folks – particularly those in big cities and those who’d rather not get their hands dirty – just kind of forget about composting as a way of reducing the food waste they send to the landfill. But now a company from my home town is offering a machine that cuts the process from months to hours…Read More →
Food Costs To Rise Sharply Again In 2022
It should come as no surprise – since nothing has changed, or is likely to change soon in the food supply chain or COVID situations – that food prices are forecast to rise sharply again in 2022. We hadn’t even gotten over how much more we were paying for food this year before the bad news landed in our laps…Read More →
Organic Chocolate Milk? Dr. Obvious Says, ‘Not This way!’
Dr. Obvious has been hunkering down, social distancing and, well, eating more than he should during the D-variant and Omicron surges. He’s a good man, at heart, but can’t beat his bad habits. Nor can he suppress a primal urge to point out ridiculosity wherever it rears it’s green, furry head…Read More →
Price Of A Cup Of Coffee Varies By $2.50 East to West!
A new independent survey in the U.S. found that the price of a cup of coffee – just an ordinary cup of Joe – varies by almost $2.50, with the lowest found on the East Cost and the highest on the west. But this revelation just makes the whole restaurant coffee equation seem even crazier!Read More →