Savvy Saving Bytes

It turns out Kashi wasn’t the only “natural” cereal brand kicked out of Green Grocers because it contained genetically engineered grains (GMOs) and pesticide residues. Three other cereal brands also got the boot at the Portsmouth, RI natural foods retailer: Barbara’s Bakery, Peace and Bear Naked. Their banishment started with Cereal Crimes, a report produced [...]

I was up late that Saturday night reading the Sunday Times when I hard an odd snapping noise. Snap-snap-SNAP — the snapping got faster and louder and suddenly burst into what sounded like powerful firecrackers going off. Alarmed, I jumped up, trying to figure out what was happening and where the scary sounds were coming [...]

Here’s the scenario: on my deck are huge, weighty wooden planters of flowers, the cause my landlord suspects, of flooding in the apartment below. He wants those monster planters off my deck and OUT of there. Swell. If I were a guy, I’d simply flex a muscle or two and haul those babies downstairs. But [...]

My blog and I are taking a Spring Break. Bright with spring flowers, here is a bustling view of the Great Hall at the Metropolitan Museum. See you all soon with some new tidbits…   Further Spring/Blossom Notes: Spring Quotes and Fifth Avenue Flowers Murder Among the Geraniums Spring Break in New York

  Yesterday my cousin Mark sent me a link to Penny Postcards, a site he thought I’d find interesting. I did. Covering all U.S. states, it collects images of penny postcards showing our cities and towns in long gone days. Taking a nostalgic trip along Memory Lane, I visited the Connecticut town where I was [...]

A while back I wrote about the presence of hair, beetles and beaver anal glands in the foods we eat. Of the three, beaver anal glands, a whiffy combo of glands and urine that beavers use to mark their territory, captured by far the biggest share of people’s attention. Since then numerous search queries have [...]