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My One-Handed Novel; Or, How I am Learning to Be Both a Parent and a Writer
Author: Ian Stansel |
Despite sometimes-embarrassing attempts at guitar, drums, and bass in my youth, I'm no musician. But if I'm honest, some of the best things I've written lately have not been stories or novel chapters, but songs. These are all a capella, all very short, and all written with a very specific audience in mind: my ten month old daughter. Selected titles include "Red Eye Flight to Sleepytown," "Monkey, Monkey, You Swung Into My Life," "Such Big Farts For Such a Little Monkey," and "Making a Sandwich for Mommy"—that last one being a jazzy Van Morrison-esque bit of lunchtime stream-of-consciousness.
I know that—the music industry being in such a state of flux—these songs will probably not gain the recognition they so obviously deserve. So meanwhile I continue to toil away at book projects. (Because, you know, publishing is so stable.) But I've found that while fatherhood has been a boon for my songwriting, it is sometimes less kind to my literary pursuits.
My daughter is not a good sleeper, and for the first seven months of her life it was next to impossible to get her to nap on her own. Which meant my wife or I held her. Most of the time this was not a sacrifice; we cherished every moment with her and cradling her tiny body seemed like a gift, an honor. Plus, we were sometimes able to get in a little reading… If we turned the pages very, very quietly. We took the sleeping difficulty as a payment, though: in every other aspect she was a wonderful and easy-going child, with an early-blooming smile and an infectious laugh.
Luckily we have also been blessed with a couch that has wide, flat arms perfect for safely placing a laptop computer, so over the past ten months I have still managed to get some work done: penning a couple essays, posting a handful of these Ploughshares blog scribblings, and laboring through a third (okay, a quarter) of a novel draft. And most of this was done with one hand—the other tucked beneath the cutest damn baby ever to log-roll across God's green earth.
But I'll admit that this isn't the most efficient way to get work done. Even though we've solved (okay, mostly solved) our sleeping issues, there are always new challenges with each new day, and many of those challenges keep me from writing as much as I'd otherwise like. So how do we write and parent?
We didn't talk much about parenting while in grad school, even though I knew a number of people with children. Likely I wouldn't have heard it anyway. This just isn't something you really pay attention to until you are in the thick of it. It is like hearing about someone else's challenging life in a foreign and difficult land: you think, "Oh, that's very interesting," but then later when you find yourself living in this foreign and difficult land, you think, "Oh, shit, I need to figure out how to survive here."
The topic, it seems, has been coming up more and more recently. I know of at least three AWP conference panel proposals being considered that touch on the difficulties of parenting and trying to build and maintain a writing career. Poets & Writers recently offered a cover story on "Books and Babies," and at the Virginia Quarterly site, Becky Tuch posted a response that wonders more about the financial lives of writer-parents: how does the average writer afford children?
I know writer-parents who have taken time away from literary pursuits to spend it with the kids, and others who get daily childcare help from family members. I know some whose writing careers have been derailed by children, and others whose work has flourished. I know a few who have been able to balance writing, childcare, and tenure-track teaching positions, and far too many who struggle to pay for their kids' new sneakers with their meager adjuncting paychecks. I know of situations where couples balance childcare responsibilities (or do their best to anyway), and I know of others where one parent (usually the mother) takes on the bulk of these duties.
In upcoming posts I'll touch on a number of these concerns, but for now I wanted to simply reach out to a few people with experience at both the writing and parenting games and asked them, "What is something that has helped you to be both a writer and a parent?" Here's what I got back…
"Being married to a writer who is also the parent is the biggest explanation for me or Robert [Boswell] ever getting a word written the first ten years of our children's lives. We traded off the time to write and took the kids out and about, leaving each other with hours. We gave the writing and the parenting equal priority. We also hired a housekeeper. Way more effective than a marriage counselor. Way." —Antonya Nelson, parent and author of Bound and Some Fun
"Scheduling has become all important for me as a writer. I used to spend six to eight hours sitting at my desk and produce less writing than I do now that I have no more than two hours carved out each weekday." —Victor LaValle, parent and author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine
"I wouldn't get anything done without colony stays. And parents tend to work harder and faster at colonies than almost anyone else, because we're so used to going into turbo-mode whenever we get ten seconds to write. So you give us sixteen hours a day for two or more weeks, and we end up with finished drafts and carpal tunnel syndrome. I'll add that it's not just the time—I think the ability to detach from your life is so important. If I have to write something really disturbing, or violent, or sexual, it's helpful not to have anyone call me Mommy for a few days." —Rebecca Makkai, parent and author of The Borrower
"My primary parenting strategy when our children were small was one at which I excelled—the exhibition of incompetence: when I carried them to bed, I was the clumsy guy, who bounced into walls and almost fell a hundred times; when I told them stories, I'd tell them a story they knew well and get all of the parts wrong, which they would correct, and eventually they'd tell the story to me; when I cooked for them, I'd predict catastrophe and ask if I should add some ridiculous ingredient (such as shoes) to correct the meal; when I drove them about, I'd pretend that I was lost and ask absurd questions about the secret movement of mountains, river, city, moon." —Robert Boswell, parent and author of Tumbledown and The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
"Before my daughter was born, I noodled around a lot more with projects, took my time. Now that I have to pay for a sitter to get that time, I tend to use it much more productively. I wrote my entire second novel starting when my daughter was about six months old." —Rebecca Johns Trissler, parent and author of The Countess and Icebergs
"I no longer need to have particular music, or coffee, or a given time of day. I can write a lot more in 15 minutes than I could in grad school. And I've learned to crave quiet, however and whenever it comes, because if there's some quiet—even while washing dishes, say—then I can dream on what I'm writing." —Mia Alvarado, parent and author of Hey Folly
"I'm a much, much more efficient writer than I used to be. I just don't have the time to screw around and check facebook and text people about where we're going this weekend…I wrote 1,000 words at Ben's track practice last night, sitting at a picnic table. I never would have been able to work in that environment before, but now I don't really have a choice, so I do it." —Dave Housley, parent and author of Ryan Seacrest is Famous
"When I was deciding whether or not to pursue a doctorate, I stayed in the guest apartment of Julianna Baggott and Dave Scott's house in Tallahassee. What I saw was this wonderful working family, with parents making sandwiches for school, arranging carpool duty for soccer practice, setting aside space in the house for the kids to have art projects. It sounds ridiculous, but I never knew the writing life could, at least on the outside, look so normal. That was thrilling for me. It made the whole project of parenting seem reasonable, and that's a tremendous gift to give someone." —Steve Kistulentz, parent and author of The Luckless Age and Little Black Daydream
"I don't try to write while I am parenting, and I don't try to parent while I am writing. I spend most of my writing time away from home, even when my children are in school, so that I'm not distracted by their stuff, their mess, impending appointments I must remember, groceries I must buy, and so on and so forth. I carve time out of each day to be away for this, when my only priority is getting words on the paper. And when I am parenting, I don't think about writing. I put my computer away and don't open it again until the children are in bed." —Lacy M. Johnson, parent and author of Trespasses
"Imagination. I need it to write. I need it to father. I need to write stories and essays to survive as an artist, but I've also needed stories to survive long drives in the car, long hikes in the woods, and those last moments of the day in which my son can't go to sleep unless he hears a story. Also, I once told my son that there was a monster in the attic that could smell his tears, so he'd better not cry. And yes, amazingly, he still loves me (or says he does)." —Matthew Vollmer, parent and author of Future Missionaries of America and Inscriptions for Headstones
What about you, readers? If you're both a writer and a parent, how have you balanced the two?
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TEENAGERS TARGETED IN RACIAL GANG ATTACK IN SHOPPING CENTRE
written by stephen February 20, 2014
Three teenagers who were attacked by a gang in a Derry shopping centre were the victims of racial abuse, police have revealed.
Foyleside Shopping Centre.
The PSNI have today released details of the attack which took place in Foyleside Shopping Centre between 5.45pm and 6.00pm on St Valentine's Day (Friday, 14 February).
A police spokesperson said: "The group were subjected to verbal racial abuse by a gang of males before being assaulted."
The spokesperson appealed to anyone who have may witnessed the attack to contact police on 0845 600 8000 or a member of their local Neighbourhood Team directly – details can be found on the PSNI website.
Alternatively, if someone would prefer to provide information without giving their details, they can contact the independent charity Crimestoppers and speak to them anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Q: Find the number of such $4$-tuples $(a,b,c,d)$ If $a \in\{1,2\}$, $b \in\{1,2,4\}$, $c\in\{1,2,3,6\}$ and $d\in\{1,2,4\}$.Find the number of $4$-tuples $(a,b,c,d)$ such that lcm$(a,b,c,d)=12$.

A: Notice that since $12 = 3 \times 2^{2},$ either $b$ or $d$ has to be equal to $4$ and $c$ has to be either $3$ or $6$ in order to satisfy the least common multiple of $12.$ Using constructive counting, we find that because there are $5$ ways to choose values for $b$ and $d$ (at least one is a $4$), $2$ ways to choose $c$ (either $3$ or $6$), and $2$ ways to choose $a,$ which has really no limitations, our answer is $5 \times 2 \times 2 = \boxed{20}.$

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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Undergraduates at the University of California, Riverside are on a success roll. First, two students won Goldwater Scholarships, announced last month. Now three undergraduate students have been named winners of prestigious scholarships from the Donald A. Strauss Foundation. Highly competitive, the Strauss Scholarship is a public service scholarship given to university students in California.
Connor Richards, a junior majoring in physics and astronomy, received the scholarship for a project that aims to increase college enrollment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields among Riverside-area high school students – specifically those from underrepresented, low-income, and/or first-generation backgrounds.
Richards's project, titled "Support and Mentoring for Aspiring Scientists in High School" or SMASH, has received $10,000 and will involve the joint partnership of UC Riverside's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS), the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD).
At UCR, Connor works with Owen Long, a professor of physics and astronomy, to look for evidence for dark matter – mysterious stuff that is more than five times as abundant as the matter with which we are more familiar. Interested in becoming a faculty member in experimental high-energy physics, Richards is concerned that not many students from underrepresented backgrounds pursue STEM degrees.
UC Riverside undergraduates Hanni Schoniger (left), Jade Zamorano (center) and Connor Richards are the recipients of Strauss Scholarships.Photo credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside.
The other winners of the Strauss Scholarship are Hanni Schoniger and Jade Zamorano. Their project, which received $ 10,000 as well, proposes a self-sustaining outreach program to bridge the educational opportunity gap in the Inland Empire by inspiring underrepresented youth in high schools to pursue higher education and careers in STEM fields.
In the planning are an annual STEM Exploration Day, hosted on campus, and a tri-annual all-girls conference, hosted at community centers – both aimed at giving students the opportunity to interact with leaders in the STEM fields, get informed about internship and volunteer opportunities, and participate in fun, inquiry-based science experiments.
Schoniger, a third-year biology major with a double minor in neuroscience and education, wants to be a science educator after she graduates. She plans to obtain her teaching credentials and a master's degree in either chemistry or biology so that she can teach and inspire high school and community college students.
At UCR, she volunteers in the lab of Anupama Dahanukar, as assistant professor of entomology, working with fruit flies. Schoniger is working on understanding how taste receptors affect the attraction towards or the aversion away from different acids. For her Honors capstone project, she is conducting a longitudinal ethnographic study of high school students and how they perceive STEM in a school setting.
Zamorano, a third-year biology major with a minor in neuroscience, plans to attend medical school after graduating and would like to specialize in cardiology or neurology, even both. The UCR School of Medicine is attractive to her because she values its efforts to address the current healthcare disparity in the Inland Empire and improve the overall health of the local community through education and preventative heathcare.
Richards, Schoniger and Zamorano are thrilled that the Strauss Foundation supports unique community and public service projects that tackle prevalent issues in today's society.
"The Strauss Foundation will not only give us the ability to provide opportunities to underrepresented youth, but also allows us to grow personally through conferences and mentoring from Strauss Foundation Board Members," Schoniger said.
This year, UCR, UCLA and Stanford University are the only universities that had two projects funded by the Strauss Foundation; in total, the UC system had nine projects funded. Approximately 12 awards are given to California undergraduates each year. Winners have often succeeded in securing other scholarships, such as the Rhodes scholarship, Marshall Scholarship and the Fulbright.
Since 2012, of the UC campuses, only UCLA (6) has had more Strauss projects funded than UCR (5). UCR and UCLA are the only two campuses to have won all four years. UCR is the only UC campus to have had two Goldwater Scholars and two winning Strauss proposals in 2015.
The Strauss Scholarships that Richards, Schoniger and Zamorano received are for the 2015-2016 academic year.


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Q: Hide the url bar on a pop up window When I use window.open() to do a pop up on a new window, I'm unable to hide the url bar. It still shows the url bar even though it's read only. Can I hide it? I do not want user to see the url.

A: You cannot do that in other browsers (Firefox, Chrome) also so even if you could do it in IE, it would have been pointless. Won't it?

A: You cannot no longer hide the address bar in IE7.
Read more about here in this MS article
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/securityupgrade.mspx

A: This works for me in IE7, but only because I have the site added to the "Trusted sites" list.
window.open(url, '_blank',
        'toolbar=no,menubar=no,width=300,height=400,resizable=no,scrollbars=no');

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In Internet Explorer 7 and later, you cannot remove the address bar in Internet Zone windows, for security (anti-spoofing) reasons.

— http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536651%28VS.85%29.aspx

A: it depends on the user's security settings. if the site is in the 'local intranet' zone then you will be able to hide the address bar.

A: It can be done like this...
window.open("about:blank", "popWin", "location=no");

But of course, the user will always be able to configure the browser to dis-allow this.  And I think by default, it will not allow it.  IF you are on their "Trusted Sites" list, this will work though.
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Maple Leafs' 3 Best Contracts for 2020-21
By Chris Faria December 1st, 2020
For all that's been said about the Toronto Maple Leafs' cap problems, you have to admire the work general manager Kyle Dubas has done to work around those issues in his two years on the job.
Last summer he relieved the team of two anchors in Nikita Zaitsev and Patrick Marleau to keep Mitch Marner in the fold. This offseason he shed some middle class money in Andreas Johnsson and Kasperi Kapanen in order to address two areas of weakness: the blue line and team toughness. The Maple Leafs now look more well-rounded and arguably stronger than ever, poised to dominate the rumored Canadian Division — whenever the puck finally drops on the 2020-21 season. For a team that's so tight on cap space, how has Dubas pulled all of this off?
Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas has done a masterful job of handling the team's salary cap over his two years in charge. (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
Well, the one thing that probably doesn't get enough attention in Toronto is how many positive value contracts they have on the books — and on the other hand, how few of their contracts are actually bad. Last week we looked at the Leafs' three worst deals, and frankly, by No. 2 or 3 we were kind of grasping at straws. This time we'll highlight those positive contracts, and it'll make sense why the Maple Leafs are in such good shape moving forward.
When Auston Matthews signed his five-year, $58 million deal in February of last year there were mixed reactions. On one hand, it was a relief that the Maple Leafs would have their superstar centre locked up for at least another five seasons. On the other hand, it was only five seasons, meaning Matthews could potentially walk to free agency at age 26. Realistic or not, the mere thought is nightmare fuel for Leafs fans. It also didn't help that close comparables, Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel, had both taken maximum term eight-year deals just over a year prior, making the Matthews contract look less than ideal in comparison.
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But even in the face of all those questions and concerns, the Maple Leafs' No. 1 centre is so good that his contract is a steal. In fact, it's one of the best in the entire NHL.
Toronto Maple Leafs contract efficiency per Dom Luszczyszyn of The Athletic. From "By the numbers: Grading every NHL team's contract efficiency, 2020 edition" (11/6/2020)
According to Dom Luszczyszyn's model, we can see that Matthews' contract is far and away the best on the team with a surplus value of $17.1 million over the next four years. For reference, that gives him the 12th-best contract in the entire NHL, behind noted underpaid stars like Nathan MacKinnon, Leon Draisaitl, David Pastrnak, and Brad Marchand.
Auston Matthews' contract is one of the best in the NHL. (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers)
The fact that Matthews is still a steal even with the third-highest cap hit in the league is simply a testament to just how good he is — and how much better he can get. If we follow Luszczyszyn's projections, the 23-year-old is probably worth something more like $16 million per season in actual on-ice value — truly great value for Toronto.
Morgan Rielly
With several questionable deals handed out to players like Zaitsev, Marleau, and Matt Martin during his tenure in Toronto, I wouldn't call contract negotiations a strong suit for former Maple Leafs general manager Lou Lamoriello. But by that same token, signing Morgan Rielly to a six-year extension in 2016 worth just $5 million per season was arguably some of his best work.
Related: 5 Maple Leafs Looking to Bounce Back in 2020-21
Coming off a nine-goal, 36-point campaign as a 21-year-old, it was evident that the Vancouver, B.C., native was going to be a centrepiece on the Maple Leafs' blue line for a long time. It didn't take long for Rielly to prove Lamoriello right, posting 52 points in 2017-18 followed by a near Norris Trophy-calibre season with 20 goals and 72 points in 2018-19. He had a down year this past season, scoring at just a 47-point pace while struggling through injuries, but Rielly still ranks eighth in points and 15th in Goals Above Replacement (GAR) among defencemen over the last three seasons.
Morgan Rielly has arguably been a top-20 defenceman in the NHL since signing his extension in 2016. (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
Over the two remaining years on his contract, Rielly should provide $8.5 million in surplus value — giving him a market value of approximately $9.25 million per season. Looking league wide, that gives Rielly the 11th-best contract among NHL defenders. The only downside for Toronto is that he'll command a hefty pay raise in two short years.
If you made this list a year ago, William Nylander's name would be nowhere near the conversation for Toronto's best contracts. In fact, after scoring at a 41-point pace in 2018-19, he may have been on a lot of people's shortlist for the team's worst contract.
Related: Maple Leafs News & Rumors: Thornton, Matthews, Marner & Nylander
Despite the rough season and accompanying criticism, Nylander came back with a vengeance in 2019-20, scoring at an impressive 38-goal, 71-point pace and putting himself on the map as one of the NHL's premier wingers.
William Nylander bounced back in 2019-20 to become one of the Maple Leafs' most valuable players. (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers)
With a projected surplus value of $6.4 million over the next four years of his contract, Nylander's true market value is more like $8.6 million. He may have signed for a bit more than fans wanted at the time, but he's making good on that deal now.
While the Maple Leafs have done well on most of their contracts to their star players, they'll need to continue to be diligent in negotiations with the rest of the lineup to keep their cap space in check. Signing Ilya Mikheyev and Travis Dermott to very team-friendly, short-term deals was a great start, but Dubas will have some tough decisions in the coming year with both Zach Hyman and Frederik Andersen on expiring contracts. The team looks to be in great shape for now, but one wrong move and the whole thing could come crashing down.
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James Maiocco, Director of Global Partners, Microsoft, offered a keynote titled "Don't Look Back: Unlock Your Data to Predict Customer Engagement Opportunities" that focused on using predictive data to influence future outcomes.
Brett Keirstead, Vice President of Sales, Knowledge Marketing, struck a similar vein with a cautionary example of how Target used customer data to provide relevant offers to a pregnant lady, who turned out to be a teenage girl whose parents were unaware of her pregnancy.
Jason Warnock, Vice President of Market Intelligence & Measurement, Yesmail, gave a very engaging talk on "Email Deliverability: The What, Why & How" covering everything from pre-flight testing and toxic URLs to blacklisting and mail streams.
Michael Fern, CEO & Co-founder, Intigi, spoke about "Accelerating Your Content Marketing and Boosting Your Search Rankings" with an emphasis on how content and social media affect search engine rankings as well as best practices for a sustainable content marketing strategy that boosts search rankings and website traffic.
Frederick Vallaeys, a 10-year Google veteran who served as Adwords Evangelist, spoke about the details of Google's advertising platform and Quality Score in a truly fascinating presentation, along with his vision for providing simple tools for small businesses.
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Andy Levey, Senior Manager of New Media and Analytics, Resident Shows Division, Cirque du Soleil, gave a very compelling presentation on identifying local audiences with similar attributes to Cirque du Soleil fans and then targeting them via Facebook.
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-NY, continued Thursday to add fodder to the widespread speculation about her motives—even recent online rumors that she may be a racist in disguise.
On "Late Night with Seth Meyers," Ocasio–Cortez made an articulated gesture that many in the leftist media have observed to be a symbol of white supremacy when previously used by President Donald Trump and his supporters.
While the theory that AOC may secretly be part of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas likewise remains unproven, the freshman congresswoman's ubiquitous exposure and increasing name recognition have indeed transformed her from a so-called democratic socialist into more of a national socialist, known to vigorously defend her colleagues' anti-Semitic stereotyping.
The obsequious Seth Meyers and compliant audience on Thursday allowed AOC to push several blatantly false narratives with nary a trace of incredulity.
For her part, Ocasio–Cortez's blending of Stalinist rhetorical tactics with the presence and diction of a 15-year-old Valley girl were apt to leave non-indoctrinatees to the theology of 'wokeness' uncertain whether to laugh, cry or cower in fear.
● She falsely insinuated that the only reason many on Fox News and other media are preoccupied with her is an illicit sexual attraction, not that she has prescribed a $93 trillion spending plan over 10 years that also would drastically impact the everyday freedoms of all Americans.
● Set up with a softball question (one of many) from Meyers about whether she was a "Manchurian candidate," she denied and then deflected, bragging that tax-funded office staffers received no less than $52,000 in salary, far more than most entry-level wage-earners.
● While literally on a TV show where she was promoting misinformation through selective omissions, lack of context and false premises—and receiving no pushback—she accused Fox News of duping Republicans by doing precisely that.
● She falsely framed criticism of the controversial Green New Deal, with help from Meyers, who claimed without evidence that opponents were primarily concerned with its position on methane emissions (i.e. "cow farts") that would force people to give up ice cream.
● She deceptively touted the fact that the GND was a nonbinding House resolution while omitting the fact that a companion Senate bill also exists with more than half of its Democratic co-sponsors also having declared presidential runs.
● She allowed Meyers to refute valid, bipartisan criticisms about her fuzzy math on crucial economic matters by showing a picture of her standing next to a high-school science project.
In an excellent takedown of the Left's calumny, Rabbi Yaakov Menken wrote for the Center for American Greatness in January that Ocasio–Cortez was "projecting her own defect" in her frequent accusations of racist dog-whistles against Trump and other critics.
"The Bronx Democrat is the last person qualified to accuse someone else of dredging up hidden signals of racism, especially against a president who has, from the beginning, opposed racism and bigotry in all its forms," Menken wrote.
The convergence of AOC and Seth Meyers—who routinely jockeys with Stephen Colbert to be the Joseph Goebbels of late-night television—made patently clear that racist views are not the only qualities Ocasio–Cortez and the new socialist Left are projecting onto opponents.
The question is not if but rather why she is purposely misleading and manipulating the public.


A fabulous book, filled with incredible DIY recipes for every area of the home, from the kitchen to the bathroom - A must read for anyone keen on creating a more eco-friendly home and lifestyle!
A fabulous book, filled with incredible DIY recipes for every area of the home, from the kitchen to the bathroom – A must read for anyone keen on creating a more eco-friendly home and lifestyle!
My mum was the Queen of what I liked to call "Recycling" food – Not as gross as it sounds! To feed our massive family, she'd save everything she could and find ways to re-use it. Yesterday's leftover spaghetti bolognese was cooked into today's lasagna. Lemons are out of season? No worries – Mum had a stock pile of freshly squeezed lemon juice and rind stashed in the freezer and had even made sweets out of the leftover bits of lemon! Anything else would go straight into the compost. Once again, I was so used to this lifestyle that I couldn't fathom anything different.
Unfortunately, some of these habits have been replaced by some not so great ones in my own home. In an effort to just Get Things Done as well as the fact that I don't have an abundance of space to grow an insane amount of produce or room for a substantial compost pile, I lost a lot of these habits along the way.
I picked up this book recently and have not put it down ever since!
Rather than sitting here, wallowing in a pile of single use plastic and un-composted veggie scraps, I am now finally well on my way to replacing so many things around my home with natural (and CHEAP!) alternatives! I thought I had no room for composting then Erin Rhoads saved the day by telling me all about Bokashi composting. I got sick of buying shampoos that would leave my hair dry and damaged then Erin Rhoads told me all about making my own shampoo, using nothing but a bit of fresh rosemary and water. As you can see, I am a huge fan of the lovely Erin!
Written in a very refreshing "non-judgy" way, Emily Rhoads shares her insight and tips on various ways you can easily reduce your carbon footprint and take simple steps towards living a zero waste lifestyle. She is constantly reminding the reader that it is a JOURNEY and not something that can easily be done overnight, which makes the whole concept of living a zero waste lifestyle much easier to swallow.
The idea of Zero Waste can seem very daunting at first. As you read this post, have a quick glance around you: How many plastic items can you see? Now consider the fact that nearly every single piece of plastic that has ever been created has NOT broken down into nothingness – It still exists in its entirety and only a small percentage of these plastics has ever been incinerated. It's a rather sobering thought really: That realisiation that all these bits of plastic are going somewhere when we throw them away rather than just magically vanishing every week on bin pick-up day.
My home is not zero waste by any means however, I am now making a conscious effort to be as close to zero as possible and this book has been an excellent guide, providing inspiration and ideas for every area of the home without making me feel like a disgusting, lazy slob for not living in a hut made of mud and living off grass and dew drops!
All the wonderful ideas I've implemented from Erin Rhoads' amazing book have not only helped me to reduce my carbon footprint but have also saved me a TON of cash in groceries and household products! Order your copy from Dymocks online here!
Erin Rhoads describes her journey towards a zero waste home, offering detailed solutions for every step of the way. From swapping out cosmetics, hair sprays and shampoos with natural solutions to re-using your kitchen scraps in incredible ways, compositing solutions and so much more!
Tools: Providing an excellent summary of why we should be striving for a cleaner, zero waste home, Emily Rhoads details the effects our waste actually has on our environment and health – you'll find some very alarming facts here about the different types of plastics available and the very serious effects of each on our health and development, as well of course as our environment.
Tips: This sections focuses on all the different aspects of our lives where it is possible to make changes, including the kitchen and bathroom to event planning and family health.
Tricks: This final section discusses how to take your new-found skills, knowledge and equipment on the road! Find Erin's best tactics for achieving a zero waste lifestyle while out and about (where the dreaded single use plastic can be found just about everywhere!) as well as helpful information you can pass on to friends and family.
This excellent read has filled me with so much excitement in implementing more eco-friendly (and healthy!) solutions for my home. I've already swapped out my shampoo with Erin's Rosemary Tea alternative (you'll find this recipe and many more in the Beauty + Body chapter!), purchased a Bokashi Compost Bin for our kitchen (we have a small home with not much space for traditional composting; The Bokashi system is the BEST alternative! Not only does it provide me with amazing fertilizer for the garden but I can also use the liquid produced to clean my home's drains) as well as finding ways to re-use food scraps, make my own toothpastes, and a hell of a lot more.
If you are looking for inspiration and easy to follow tips to achieve a more eco friendly lifestyle, this book will become your ULTIMATE guidebook – A definite must read!
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This is the fourth book in the series of single point acupressure treatment penned by the author and pertains exclusively to old age problems. Old age spares no one and brings along with it a host of debilitating diseases, some of which go away only with death. Thus old age becomes a curse, which the elderly have no choice but to suffer silently. However, this need not be so and there is hope in the form of simple acupressure treatment which the affected person can administer to oneself.
This book, like Books I, II and III on single point treatment, is the result of author�s empirical research, study and experience based on treatment of thousands of patients. This book, along with other single point treatment books, will be found very useful by all acupressure therapists as well as by elderly persons who can treat many of their old age problems by themselves.
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