Eve O. Schaub's Blog, page 9
April 1, 2020
Happy Little Tortillas
Confession: I’m not a gluten avoider. Like, in Any. Way. I think homemade bread is one of the most delicious things in the world, and luckily no one in our house has a gluten intolerance because in our pandemic seclusion we are baking a LOT of bread. I find baking bread to be very meditative […]
March 27, 2020
Lunch at Our Table
Lately, a surprising amount of my energy is devoted to the task of not being terrified. I’m a person who suffers from obsessive anxiety, so even pre-Corona virus I was really, really good at washing my hands. Like, I already sang the alphabet song. Now I sing Wagner’s Ring cycle. Luckily, for me, I have […]
March 19, 2020
Going Zero Waste for the Apocalypse
My family is living the entirety of 2020 without producing any garbage. We’re now three months in and I feel its only fair to report that I’m now having regular, fairly elaborate dreams about sorting recyclables. Which makes me kind of wonder about myself. Everyone I know is running around with their hair on fire, […]
March 14, 2020
Things I am wondering today:
At what point are they gonna cancel high school for Ilsa? And for how long? What does “anthropogenic” mean? Like, it’s bad, right? Do I have time to do my writing today AND drive forty minutes to buy milk in glass bottles? I now have a houseful of kids- I mean, young adults– fleeing the […]
March 7, 2020
There’s a Crazy Lady in the Kitchen
Steve walked into the kitchen today as I sat in the middle of what most people would call a pile of garbage, and asked “What are you doing?” “Playing.” I said. “Oh, okay.” he said, walking back out again. There was a pause before I called after him, “Do you think I’m crazy?” “Oh, I […]
February 28, 2020
The Mysterious Milkman and Aseptic Cartons
I can still recall the milk box we had when I was a kid. A cube-shaped metal container sat outside our front door and would fill with fresh, new glass bottles of milk once a week. I never saw the milkman, so it seemed rather like a magic trick: put empty bottles in and- poof– […]
February 25, 2020
Beads, Beads, Beads
It’s Fat Tuesday- Happy Mardi Gras everyone! Imagine I am throwing you some invisible, purple, green and gold necklaces to wear all day long in celebration. Very sustainable. Heck, while we’re at it, have an invisible slice of King Cake on me. For many years my mom and her boyfriend have made New Orleans their […]
February 14, 2020
Confessions of a Paper Towel Addict
I’m a big fan of reality television. Mind you, not just any reality television. Historical reality television. That’s the kind where they take three modern American families and have them, say, live as 19th century pioneers somewhere in the Montana wilderness. What I just described is one of my favorites shows of all time: Frontier […]
February 6, 2020
It’s the Little Things
I’ve been having a lot of weird thoughts lately. Like, the fact that I’ve been throwing stuff away my entire life. This now strikes me as a crazy thing. Or wondering, how much garbage in a landfill somewhere is directly from my own hand? Then, I think to wonder, what was the first thing I […]
January 29, 2020
Demystifying the Big Supermarket Box
For a while now I’ve wondered what the deal is with those mysterious boxes at the front of the supermarket offering to recycle your plastic shopping bags. Often they’re just big cartons or barrels with a slot in the top and a green recycling arrow on the side. I can’t imagine I’m the only person […]
