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still not buying anything today

Stewart and I have declared today a Buy Nothing Day. Hooray! So far, so good. No impulse buys. No debits or dexits. I like it because the day feels more meaningful; it just hangs together better when I put my consumer self on hold for awhile. And since I’m broke right now, the break from […]

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Posted bycatheraine8 February 200518 April 2017Posted inGeneral1 Comment on still not buying anything today

Country Love

On a Thursday night a few months back, I saw a conscientious objector from South Dakota at the University of Toronto. Before I saw him in person, I had heard Jeremy Hinzman’s name in Quaker circles and then on a CBC radio program which narrated stories of Vietnam and Iraqi war resisters in Canada. Hinzman’s […]

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Posted bycatheraine6 February 20056 February 2005Posted inGeneral1 Comment on Country Love

be still for afternoon snow

The west side of my LINC classroom is basically two enormous windows. They’re great for watching the alley traffic near Coffee Time. While I was sitting at a table happily filling in the attendance after class, an incoming student (for the next class) pulled up a nearby chair to face the window. We shared a […]

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Posted bycatheraine24 January 2005Posted inGeneralLeave a comment on be still for afternoon snow

I have a blog!

Yesterday I was reading The History of God in a coffeeshop when a elderly man asked if he could sit in the opposite armchair. Pretty soon we struck up a conversation and I learned that he’s 83, a Midwesterner like me, and a WWII veteran. We talked about Maimonides and Israeli politics. I enjoyed his […]

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Posted bycatheraine18 January 200518 January 2005Posted inGeneral2 Comments on I have a blog!

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