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So although there's a ton of alternative ways to heat stuff out there (check out  yesterday's comment/link re compost-pile water ...

OK: Here's the setup: An old house (probably built around 1860) in a densely populated city (Somerville, MA) and an ...

A canceled meeting meant I could merely sit at the kitchen table this morning, still in my jammies, drink my ...

Today's Boston Globe had a disturbing article in the business section: Evergreen Solar, a local biz, "has struggled against aggressive ...

For your consideration: YOU being anyone using natural gas to heat your home. Yes. I'm hoping you'll click on that ...

Yesterday, in the spirit of Telling Everybody What I'm Doing and Then Listening, my friend Betsy  mentioned her visit to ...

So a big part of this month-long Light and heat project should be bumping up against those irrational, stuck places ...

Gotta admit: When I saw "Julie and Julia," my immediate reaction was, "Damn! Wish I could blog about some interesting ...

To paraphrase W. C. Fields: All things considered, I'd rather have the Blizzard Christmas of 2010 to the Norovirus Christmas ...

There'a a little beauty parlor on Somerville Avenue that's hung some cheesy, glittery Christmas ornaments in its large, plate glass ...

Haven't we heard this story before? A gentle and Spirit-imbued man, a traveler, a stranger, by his powerful yet graceful ...

Saturday morning, I invited my husband to join me to shop at a crafts fair and to pick up our ...

The bells of mindfulness are calling out to us, trying to wake us up, reminding us to look deeply at ...

Wade Drayton, currently serving a life sentence at MCI-Norfolk for a crime he says he did not do, wants to ...

The bells of mindfulness are sounding. Thich Nhat Hanh A week after my father died, my husband and I ...

My father, Albert F. Wild, died on October 15th at the age of 95. So to end this "query" series, ...

Did you know that Archibald Query invented marshmallow fluff, right here in Somerville, in 1917? Quaker query and book publishing ...

"Friends have developed the Queries to assist us to consider prayerfully the true source of spiritual strength and the extent ...

Okay, technically, it's a new month and "Winds of Change" is so last month. But with a possible hurricane bearing ...

From the Boston Sunday Globe, August 22, 2010: [Re boycotts against Israel] "We used to lobby the US government, the ...

Last night I went to the Somerville Public Library to hear Boston College professor Charlie Derber, author of From Greed ...

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Back from Baltimore Yearly Meeting—with a brief visit to New England Yearly Meeting—and eager to "unpack." To spend so much ...

["The wind of change is blowing all over the world today. it is sweeping away the old order and bringing ...