Tag: Local
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Gobble A Green Thanksgiving for 2014
[edit November 24, 2014] Before I begin an article on Thanksgiving let me clear up any confusion about what you may have been told about the gut-filling holiday that began in 1621. Poor documentation of the first holiday allows for people to speculate its meaning and traditions. I prefer to accept a more modern explanation…
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Is China-made Becoming the American Way?
Thanks to powerful marketing strategies, material items are popular among Americans, especially at a cheap price. But who is paying the price for our consuming ways? Targeted consumers are victims of American corporations that wish to maximize their profit margins by outsourcing higher-paying jobs. Corporations like Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart, in nearly every city…
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Dated Doorbell
Old architecture is like eye-candy for me. Things from the past make me feel insignificant. I dig that. Home #2 on the Baltimore tour presents a delicious, antique doorbell within its purple door. I researched the date on the bell and believe it to be an 1891 rotary doorbell. The electric doorbell was invented by…
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Fells Point fire
A helicopter circled my house Monday. All day. Relentlessly. The loud sound of the blades chopping the air actually started to frustrate me so I set out on the street to see what was going on. I’m curious like that. Traffic was stopped and Baltimoreans covered the sidewalks. Seeing this many people out on the…
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Baltimore BBQ
Since living in eclectic Fell’s Point located in downtown Baltimore, every morning I step out on my front stoop to the smell of fresh cooked cinnamon bread assaulting my nostrils. At first I assumed it was the local breakfast diner across the street. And then it happened. I spotted the perpetrator. A bread factory that takes up…
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American Highways and The Outlaws That Remain in Arizona
Outlaws don’t just exist in the old west; they’re unnoticed throughout the highways. On the military grounds of Fort Riley in Kansas, Doug Smith backs his bright-yellow rig into a dark cave where his enormous glass windows are blacked out with material so he can’t see anything that is going on and is ordered to…
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DIY Jerky from the Meat Shop
I found a bang’n deal at the Goodwill the other day I couldn’t pass up. There on the shelf sat a $7 dollar newish dehydrator. I brought it home, cleaned it thoroughly and christened it with my first food: beef jerky. Although, I mainly bought the thing to dry my garden herbs I was excited…
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The Truth About Water Bottles & Tap Water
Living in the Arizona desert makes bottled water an exceedingly popular and convenient product, but while plastic water bottles offer convenience, they also create unnecessary waste within our environment and landfills. I recently completed a state-wide brochure informing Arizonians why water bottles are killing our planet. I am so passionate about the subject that I…
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Do you love potato chips??? Of course you do unless you’re some kind of freak or something.
Wondering what to do with that green, awkward-looking kale leaf? Whether it’s growing in your garden or staring at you from across the grocery store, kale can be transformed into the tastiest and healthiest chip you can imagine. Most weekends, I shop at my local farmers market in downtown Phoenix and started noticing people selling…
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Sustainable Traditions Start With You (Baby too!)
Chances are you’ve been to a baby shower at least once in your life. And if not, you will one day. Baby showers have evolved with the times and so should your gift giving. It‘s no longer responsible to shop stores that sell plastic products that aren’t earth friendly or locally made. Wrapping paper has…
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