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Baseball
1950 Trenton Giants featuring Willie Mays Even if you are not a fan, it’s hard not to associate spring with the opening of baseball season. In almost every neighborhood across America, crowds of...
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Growing Pains
October sky I believe in growing pains. It’s an inherent part of human nature to want to turn away from pain. In our modern society we have seen a growing tendency to avoid conflict, even effort, at...
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Patient Capital
Grafitti art at Art All Night 2011 I have this dark secret: I was secretly wishing that the recession would last a little longer. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying that I don’t truly worry about...
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…and justice for all?
I know that the embodiment of those words wasn’t really meant to include food justice…or was it? I have found myself astounded recently, absolutely astounded in my recognition that America has, in...
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Picking….and choosing
Leaving my job as a corporate paralegal earlier this year to pursue a career in urban ag and food issues also meant taking a major reduction in my income. Anticipating this, I did the best I could to...
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Sustainable enough?
As I peruse the pages of Mother Earth News, and the writings of Bill McKibben, I can’t help but feel that my efforts to reduce my eco-footprint are falling woefully short. The pages of this month’s...
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Squashing the cakes…sort of
Will Allen addresses the Food Summit 10/12/12 My lack of recent posts is a testament to the many events going on in and around New Haven this month that pay tribute to food in some way. For starters,...
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All that (glitters) grows is (black) gold
I am going to give away my age when I admit that I frequently replay in my head the scene from a 1989 movie where Andie MacDowell confesses her debilitating concern over where we are going to put all...
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Where’s the Love?
After the recent shooting on December 17, 2012 in Newtown, CT, my partner and I held each other and prayed as we listened to the news coverage of the unspeakable massacre. Initially, words failed us...
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In the Gray
One gray day chases the next all color sucked out of the landscape by the wind the wind that rushes through the narrowness between buildings slips steathily up my sleeve cuffs and in the...
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