Foto Friday
The Worse Garden In America I may try to live green, but I have no green thumb. This is my first try at gardening and I suck at it. No one told me tomato plants grew as tall at redwood trees, infesting cucumber plants would take over like crabgrass, a carrot’s readiness is completely indecipherable, birds eat [...]
Neurotic Cleaning with my E-cloth
As you all know, I have been trying to reduce my family’s exposure to chemicals. One way I have done this is changing the cleaning supplies I use. While I am sensitive to the fumes when I clean, I also worry about Celina, my house cleaner and family member for 12 years, because of her constant [...]
Is 1,4-Dioxane lurking in your household products?
1,4-Dioxane has been popping up in a lot of articles I’ve been reading lately. This sneaky little chemical had been found in almost every personal care and cleaning product around. It’s actually not an ingredient, but rather the byproduct of the ethoxylation process in the production of surfactants like sodium myreth sulfate and sodium laureth [...]
Hey KC, Go Green and Recycle Glass!
Interested in recycling glass? It isn’t as difficult as it used to be now that Ripple Glass has distributed their giant purple collection containers all over Kansas City. The hardest thing about recycling is to remember not to throw out your glass bottles! We have been trying to get in the habit here at the [...]
You never know what you’ll find shopping for 80s clothes…
While shopping for an authentic 1980s outfit at American Apparel, I noticed a display of Dr. Bronner’s Castile Soap for sale. It seamed completely out-of-place in a store chalked full of oversized neon tee-shirts, leg warmers, and hair scrunchies. I asked the sales person why an 80s apparel shop would sell organic vegetable soap – [...]
