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Choosing a Toxic Cleaner

A few weeks ago I noticed it was time to wash our fabric show curtain liner.

First, note that we don’t use plastic liners as the vinyl and other plastics in show curtains and liners release a goodly amount of VOC’s when they are new.  Even the newer PEV liners can really only be trashed [...]

Saying Good Bye to our Pups

We said good-bye to our dogs over these past two weeks.  Thinking abstractly about what would happen if one of our pets were aggressive with kids or we had an allergy issue is so very different than going through the actions of “rehoming” your loved pets.  I have been largely quiet about Gabriel’s eczema since [...]

Jumble

It has been two weeks since I have written – it feels like a lot longer.  Some periods of time take on that quality – like it had to be longer since so much got packed in.  Over the last two weeks I have traveled to Dallas and Minneapolis; conducted five job interviews (resulting in [...]

13 Cupholders and other Minivan amenities

If you have been reading along you know that we recently added Gabriel to the family and he is now just over two months old.  In that time we have done a fair bit of driving.  The four of us.  And just the four of us because that is all we could fit in the [...]

Pumpkin’s Tough Choice

Since Pumpkin came into my life I have been amazed at how distinct and clear some of his personality traits are – nature v. nurture?  I have seen a whole lot of traits that are clearly nature.  And those traits allow Pumpkin to make decisions and take actions accordingly.  Even though this has been the [...]