Religion is not my thing. My whole family—both sides and as many generations as I’m aware of—have never taken up religion. Or maybe, at some point, someone gave up religion in favor of more personal freedom, or maybe there weren’t churches in the Pacific Northwest logging camps and homesteader communities where my ancestors found themselves….
Category: culture
jargonian nonsensicalness
I work in a field that is loosely connected to Marketing. Interactive media is almost always developed as some kind of marketing tool. I can’t really bitch about this (though occasionally I would like to), since people do need to communicate their message somehow, right? So I find myself often in the presence of Marketing…
The Great Depression Really Wasn’t so Great
Today I saw a headline on the newspaper about how people got through the “first” Great Depression and I immediately thought – with a bit of dread – of a book my grandma had when I was a little girl. It was a big musty hardcover book published in the thirties with recipes and tips…
Plumb Wonderful 