Marian Allen's Blog, page 58
October 20, 2023
Fridays For Future, Climate Strike Online: Hope Is Not Stupid
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrikeOnline #hope I found an essay on the CNBC website that I just had to share. The case for ‘hope punk’ when talking about climate change: ‘To be hopeless is to be uninformed’ Her main point is that, by focusing exclusively on the very…
October 19, 2023
Thursday Doors: On and Off The Road
#ThursdayDoors @Kleinertkutz #handsurgery #pyogenicgranuloma So I went to Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center to have this non-cancerous tumor removed from my palm (pyogenic granuloma, anyone?), which the doctor did in about fifteen minutes, and I used the occasion to snap some door photos. This isn’t,…
October 18, 2023
One-Liner Wednesday: Charming — If That’s The Word I Want
#one-linerwednesday So I have this non-cancerous tumor in the middle of my palm (hope you’re not eating as you read this) and the doctor tried to burn it out with silver nitrate (spoiler alert: it didn’t work). She wrote down the official name of it,…
October 17, 2023
Tuesday Food: End-Of-The-Summer Salad
#TuesdayFood #recipesortof #food #vegan #vegetarian The wonderful Patt Wuest, who makes THE BEST BREAD and sells it at the Saturday farmers’ market, made a new one: jalapeno cheddar. So I bought a quarter loaf. Friends, it is SO GOOD! I was a little afraid of…
October 16, 2023
Monday Recommends and Nail Art: Gnomes
#1 Daughter, who works in the children’s section of a library, turned me on to this book, The Hidden World of Gnomes, by Lauren Soloy. She loves it, #2 Daughter loves it, and I love it, so I went to a discount bookstore online and…
October 15, 2023
Sunday Snapshot: What Is?
#flowers #petunia I did a Google Image Search on this volunteer in a planter of dead dill, and it appears to be a mini petunia. I have no petunias. So, thank you birbs, for eating a seed, flying to my house, and pooping in my…
October 14, 2023
Caturday: Chickie Becomes A Lap Cat
HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! It’s hard to believe, but Mommy doesn’t pay attention to me every minute of the day. I’m not even lying! Sometimes she works in the office, and I have to wander around and around her chair and stare up at…
October 13, 2023
Fridays For Future, Climate Strike Online: Hope From Held v Montana
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrikeOnline Legal Planet published a guest article last month written by a young law student who summered in Montana, following the Held v Montana case, the case brought against the state by a group of young people intent on holding the state accountable for…
October 12, 2023
Thursday Doors: Water, Water Everywhere
#ThursdayDoors Welp, as I shared on my personal Facebook page, my fall in the woods which resulted in a foreign body cyst on my left palm has followed up that act with a foreign body non-cancerous tumor in the same spot. SO, I had to…
October 11, 2023
One-Liner Wednesday: ‘Splain, Please
#onelinerwednesday I told Sara of this interchange — my side of it was totally in my head, but still — and she said it was a One-Liner Wednesday one-liner, so here it is. I overheard a guy say, “We came here to plant a church,…
