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Collective Consumption

Last night, before the Top Chef finale (in which my beloved Hootie went down due to lack of self-confidence, and the Mountain Potato was crowned king), I attended a food cooperative sharing meeting. My student worker told me about this group, New Boston Collective, which puts in bulk orders for organic foods. These days I’ve [...]

Highway through Flyover Country

This past weekend I’ve been in the lovely state of Iowa, filled with corn and hog farms, visiting a friend for a wedding. The friend, incidentally, was to be the recipient of a shawl made from the belated yarn. I did get the yarn a little over a week ago, and tried valiantly to knit [...]