A Blogger's Day

A Blogger’s Day

When not writing and reading, I have days like the one outlined below:

• Work I do for an employer that meshes with personal values and brings dollars into the household 
• Housework to keep us all healthy and happy
• Finished a summer jacket
• Tended vegetable seedlings under growlights
• Helped to prepare three meals
• A trip to the local foods store and the local chain grocery to get what the local foods store hasn’t room to carry
• Pruned back bushes and fruit trees

Usually early in the morning or before bed, I read a little bit. Here are some titles I've found very informative and/or uplifting lately, in no particular order:

a)     Pahl. Greg. Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2012.

b)    Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1980.

c)     Wilkonson, Richard and Kate Pickett. The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better.  New York: Penquin, 2009.

d)    Autry, Charles T. and Rolanf F. Hall. The Law of Cooperatives. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2009.

e)     Estill, Lyle. Small is possible: life in a local economy. Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2008.

f)     McGraw, Seamus. The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone. New York: Random House, 2012.

g)     Hillman, James. The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World. Dallas: Spring Publications, 1981.

h)    Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010.

i)      Horowitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law: 1870-1960, the Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

j)      Parker, Rozsika. The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine. London: Women’s Press, 1986.

k)    Toensmeier, Eric. Perennial Vegetables. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2007.

l)      Solomon, Steve. Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times. Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2008.

m)   Hemenway, Toby. Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, Second Edition. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.

n)    Pavel, M. Paloma. Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

o)    Markham, Brett L. Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on ¼ Acre. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2010.

p)    Thompson, Sylvia. The Kitchen Garden: A Passionate Gardener’s Comprehensive Guide to Growing Good Things to Eat. New York: Bantam, 1995.

q)    Jabbour, Niki. The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year No Matter Where You Live. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, 2011.

r)     Brasch, Walter M. Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster. Carmichael, CA: Greeley & Stone, 2012.

s)     ICA Provkök. Rutiga Kokboken. ICA Bokförlag Västerås, 1984.

t)     Bayless, Rick. Mexican Everyday. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2005.

u)    Puckette, Chrlotte and Olivia Kiang-Snaije. The Ethnic Paris Cookbook: Bringing the French Melting Pot into Your Kitchen. London, New York, Munich, Melbourne and Delhi: DK Publishing, 2007.

v)    Pham, Mai. Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table. New York: Harper Collins, 2001.

w)   Robertson, Laurel, Carol Flinders, and Brian Ruppenthal. Laurel’s Kitchen Recipes. Berkeley, CA:  Ten Speed Press, 1986.

x)     Nathan, Joan. Jewish Cooking in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

y)    Somerville, Annie. Fields of Greens. New York: Bantam, 1993.

z)    Pépin, Jacques. Simple and Healthy Cooking. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1994.

aa)  Madison, Deborah. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.