Today is 4/20, a.k.a. National Pot Smoking Day. Its exact origins aren’t known–some say it’s the time (4:20pm) that a group of California teens in 1971 met to toke up. Here are some fun 420 facts and myths from Snopes.com. And Huffington Post has done an in-depth look at the origins of 420. And High…

Giving props to the NYT Magazine’s green issue from yesterday. It’s full of good stuff about the human psychology/brain wiring barriers to becoming greener. A really good read, and not just because I love the Momix-sculpted (Spencer Tunick-inspired) cover. The main story that got me was “Natural Happiness: The self-centered case for environmentalism.” Yale prof…

Ok, this just made me smile. Here’s a healthy recipe for Foodie Friday I came across on the Tillmook cheese company’s Facebook profile. Lots of fun, and you could make your bunny look less concerned (“Am I food?”). Ingredients:Olives, slicedCarrot, cut into thin sticksCelery, cut into thin sticks and trianglesRed Pepper, cut into triangles and short…

We all have them. Plans for the future and fantasies for how we’d like them to work out. Some are practical, some outlandish, most a combo–I recently started calling these “plantasies.” I’ve been plantasizing a lot this very cold and gray spring. About moving somewhere gorgeous (i.e., with trees and swimmable bodies of water nearby).…

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