March 24, 2009
To celebrate Ada Lovelace day, today, March 24, bloggers around the globe are celebrating by publishing posts about women in technology they admire. I mulled this over for a long time, and I just couldn’t choose. So, I’m going to list off several women and how they have inspired me. Jennifer Baird of Accuri Cytometers [...]
February 28, 2009
As I sit here drinking my lovely cup of organic Shui Xian Oolong tea I can feel like I’m also doing a little thing for the environment. At least, if compared to the impact I’d make for the same amount of coffee. I saw an amazing chart in the February 28-March 6 edition of the [...]
February 25, 2009
So, this fall I experimented with canning and freezing some of the local yummies. I canned tomato sauce and drunken fig jam, and I froze peaches (as well as excess hot peppers from the farm share). I wanted to save these items past the fall, to meter them out so I had summer yummies through [...]
February 18, 2009
So, our farm share has helped me incorporate a few new vegetables into my cooking. Previous to the farmshare, I was in a vegetable rut. I admit it, I was serial buyer of broccoli, spinach, and salad. My farmshare has expanded my horizons a little bit. I do not know how I lived a full [...]
February 9, 2009
So, I really do want to be green. But the recent upsurge of “please consider the environment, do not print this email unless necessary” type of signature lines in email is making me see red. I typically don’t print emails unless absolutely necessary (like it includes directions to a house I have never visited before), [...]
January 26, 2009
There is a new gym in town, Joust Strength and Fitness, and a pal has been having a good time training there. Joust has a nice program of classes and one-on-one training. But, I’m not going. Now, I know strength training is an important part of health and fitness. I also haven’t really been doing [...]
January 21, 2009
I have learned how to exercise sustainably. I use a heart rate monitor when I do my cardio, and it helps me calibrate my workout. It keeps me honest when I’m slacking, and more importantly, it keeps me from burning out by overdoing it. I’m afraid that I’ve noticed that happen. I have a habit [...]
January 13, 2009
So, after a few conversations and some reflection, I think my vision of a green roof in my “what is your life’s work” post was metaphorical rather than literal. Do I quit my job as a project manager and Director of Happiness and go back to my “roots” in ecology? Farm a bunch of roof [...]
January 12, 2009
I attended the RubberBand Dance Group performance at the Power Center in Ann Arbor on Friday January 9. I enjoyed the choreography, the staging, the mixture of video and music and dance, and the play of the dancers and choreography with the audience. I had a great evening, and I came away energized. I wanted [...]
December 31, 2008
A year ago I decided to deepen my commitment to acknowledging all that I have received by writing posts on gratitude. This is the last post in the series. Over the last year, I’ve written about large and small things that have made me happy: knitting, food, local pleasures, yoga, meditation, family, going up north, [...]
not particularly objective musings on odds and ends – Dunrie Greiling, Ann Arbor, MI 48105