I was emailing with my wife and she asked me how my day was, so I sent her everything I did today. She said “you should add this to your blog!” Here you go. This morning I was escorted to interesting classes by a senior whose ASL is pretty good. We went to things like [...]
Posts Tagged ‘vegetarian’
This is Dumb: The Vegetarian Myth
From The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith: In his book Long Life, Honey in the Heart, Martin Pretchel writes of the Mayan people and their concept of kas-limaal, which translates roughly as “mutual indebtedness, mutual insparkedness.” “The knowledge that every animal, plant, person, wind, and season is indebted to the fruit of everything else is [...]
Flexitarianism
Oh barf. Newsweek has an article about flexitarianism which is the phenomenon of being vegetarian but eating meat occasionally. This sounds like pescetarianism, which is also not vegetarianism. According to the article only 2-3 percent of Americans are traditional vegetarians – I can’t believe it’s that low – and lot more people eat meat occasionally. [...]
Eating Meat
Once again, the idea of eating meat is on my mind. I’ve been a vegetarian since November 1993, nearly 15 years. For the past five years or so, I’ve thought about eating meat again. I originally became a vegetarian for ethical reasons, I used to do the “I won’t eat anything with a face” thing, [...]
I Took Today Off
Well, there isn’t really a lot to say about today, because I stayed in the hotel room! I finished off that bottle of wine and ran around the room naked all day. I did go to Disneyland yesterday though, and those pictures are now on my Flickr, as are the pictures from Monday, which I [...]
Hamilton
Today we docked in Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda. We arrived about an hour later than scheduled, but we didn’t have any morning plans so we didn’t mind. When we got through customs I called the dive shop on a pay phone, but they said the trip would probably be canceled due to lack of [...]
Lunch at Sunflower
So he met me at Sunflower, a mostly-vegan restaurant right near my house. I enjoyed having lunch with him but I felt a little awkward at my in-laws’ house.