Social Issues

  • Mental Maintenance,  Social Issues

    Mindset

    I seem to be consistent with only posting annually. Not the schedule I had planned or anticipated. But life more consistently had other plans than I could make time here. There has been many family hospitalizations, ongoing cancer care, a death — none related to one another. And that’s just the healthcare related items. The consequence is that there is a lot of mental, emotional, and physical work that just haven’t made it possible for me to be here. The other issue is that I keep wanting to make this space “a thing.” I have kept this space for myself because the Internet is important and I believe that individual…

  • Food,  Home and Family,  Social Issues

    Meals – a case study

    One of the most difficult things about being human, or any living being, for that matter, was how to solve the problem of feeding ourselves for the duration of our lives. Providing meals is a laborous process. It was when we were threshing our own wheat. It is now despite convenience “food” and take-out. Many people have discussed the cognitive load, unpaid labor, and disproportionate burden this places on women. I’ll dig up those more articulate commentaries and link them later. What I wanted to do here was lay out a specific outline and time of what that has looked like for me. If it’s useful as a reference for…