Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
The former facilities manager of my small Vermont bank had a bad 2023. When I met him, he had only just been promoted to this position, which was a job he did not seem to enjoy or even do well. He was an excellent handyman. He was not at all suited to managing other handy-people,… Continue reading The Daily: 9 August 2024
Does anyone else fall prey to the idea that there must be ketchup in the house? I was going through the fridge, emptying out things that were expired. There was a nearly full jar of store-bought ketchup that expired last August. Obviously, this is not a need in my life. But... well, I seem to… Continue reading The Daily: 17 January 2023
for 16 December 2022 A short rejoinder inspired by numerous responses to Negative Feedback. Type in "percent transportation on renewables in the US" into Google and this is the top figure in the search results: 17% in 2020. (Note: I'm using the US because there are easily obtainable data and because the US is a… Continue reading The Daily
I was listening to Timothée Parrique talk with Nate Hagens on The Great Simplification. Parrique is entertaining and enthusiastic, not common qualities in an economist, much less one whose research focus is in the potentially doomy arena of degrowth. But he makes degrowth sound fun. I shared the podcast conversation on social media and attached… Continue reading A Sexy Future
I need to change things again. Wednesday Word is just not working for me. Or maybe it’s that it’s just work for me. Maybe. I do like the format, but it’s not doing what I’d like. Furthermore, I’ve been having problems with Twitter, presumably because I use phrases like “climate justice” and “degrowth” and “reparations”… Continue reading The Times They Are a’Changin’ (again)
By My Solitary Hearth 