Archive for the 'Home' Category

On Coming Home

Friday, August 15th, 2008

After traveling in Europe for two months, I was worried that I might come home to San Francisco and find it rather sad and small, and unlovely. I wondered how my homely little town–my village, really–could compare to Rome, London, Paris, or even Brussels.

And I arrived back at the end of summer, our season of [...]

The Kimchi Struggle

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

[lang_en] My first encounter with “kimchi” was when my brother-in-law brought three containers of this dish from Manila ten years ago. Kimchi is actually this traditional Korean dish made of vegetables, like cabbage, that was fermented with a variety of seasoning. So the moment my brother-in-law opened the plastic containers, it nearly knocked me out [...]

Horrible Harmful High Housing no more…

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

  Thought you might enjoy reading about some of my adventures.  For 3 years my husband and I traveled around the country, without a home and everything we owned in our very small car. We camped in a lot of great places, met many wonderful folks and were invited to stay in many homes. [...]

Horrible Harmful High Housing

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Houses gassing off. Carpets, insulation, paint and more. So tight and filled with chemicals they’re sick houses. Literally! The building materials are bad for us. Real bad. Have been for years now. Since the ’50s we’ve had Horrible Harmful Housing. I remember back in the late [...]