NaBloPoMo: Heat

I am grateful for heat. Have you ever lived without heat? Or been forced to keep it so low that you have to turn to other forms of warmth?  My furnace died in the winter of 2004 while I had pneumonia. My cousin came to fix it – about 8 hours passed with no heat. […]

NaBloPoMo: Creative Conservation

NaBloPoMo: Creative Conservation

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 What is the most creative way you conserve energy in your home? The uncreative parts of conservation involve changing our habits and following “best practices: Set the thermostat and do not “adjust” except in cases of true sickness.  Because I work from home, we have two settings: 68 during the day/evening […]

NaBloPoBo: Energy!

What is your biggest concern about the future of the environment?  My biggest concern is the fact that people ignore science. They don’t like the facts so they simply ignore them. This is a common human response to things we don’t want to hear or deal with – denial. But it is very powerful. Realistically, […]

Sunday Energy NaBloPoMo

So, What Exactly Is NaBloPoMo Anyway?

That’s an excellent question. This is a nice summary. It is a real thing – a challenge to post fresh content each day for an entire month. No scheduling software, no backposting. It is held in November and started 13 years ago. NaBloPoMo has evolved (???) into a sort of free-for-all writing exercise. I’m participating […]

NABloPoMo: Weird Things That Energize Me

Throwing a tennis ball to my dogs. I love it. I can’t do it with my bum hand — and my left hand throws fill Ms. Marjorie’s fenced-in-yard with most of our balls. But it is so much fun to see how joyfully they play. Xander is relentless. Deus yips and prances. Ana barks fiercely […]

NaBloPoMo: Kryptonite

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 If you were a superhero, what would be your kryptonite, draining your energy? Kryptonite is a fictional material from the Superman mythos — the ore form of a radioactive element from Superman’s home planet of Krypton. It is famous for being the ultimate natural weakness of Superman and most other Kryptonians, and the word Kryptonitehas since become synonymous with an Achilles’ heel —the one […]

NaBloPoMo: Does Navel Gazing Generate Energy?

Today’s topic is self-generated after reading a little online dialogue about the impact/value/merit of the NaBloPoMo exercise. The question seems to be – does a writing exercise that may generate somewhat banal content have merit – does the content generated count for anything beyond the original experiential benefit of creating it? I’m new to this […]

NaBloPoMo: Superhero?

Monday, January 14, 2013 If you were a superhero, what would be your hidden superpower? How about this? Yep, cape and everything. For social media. OK, for Twitter! But blogging begat twitter for moi! I will tell you that it is best to wear a superhero cape over a tee shirt, not a blazer. Anyway, […]

NaBloPoMo: Energy Redux

I’ve never consumed an energy drink. I tasted Red Bull once. It was awful. That was in 2004 at PrideFest. It was free. I sipped and promptly tossed the entire thing. I’ve also never used medication to get energy. I take an antidepressant seasonally, but that’s not the same thing as a “very special episode” […]