carrot's blog

So, once you aren't doing much of anything, your friends start coming up with all sorts of ideas for you about what you should do next. My friend Katarra thinks I should apprentice with a fox/coyote trapper in North Caroline. My friend Rowan has suggested apprenticing with his midwife friends in Georgia. Morgan thinks I should do the beet harvest in Minnesota and make $1,000 in a month.  Read More »

Man do I love summer! I want to make a list of joyful celebration of things I love about the summer.
1) Swimming in the fountain at Peninsula Park, especially with my little buddy Andrew!
2) Pulling Andrew around in the bike trailer behind my bike!
3) Listening to acoustic metal bands play in Peninsula Park while eating pie and drinking beer with my best friends.
4) Food Not Bombs!!!!!!!  Read More »

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So I've been realizing that, at least in the US, this idea that we all have to guard everything we have; wiether it be food, clothing, cars, lovers, pets, etc, that if we share with others, things will disappear and we'll not have enough, that there isn't enough to go around; basically, this capitalist idea of scarcity isn't as true as we sometimes think.  Read More »

Hi everybody, it has been a long time since I've posted anything, mostly because I've been horrendously busy with school and life, and also because I was having a problem accessing my account; but I'm back now, and I've made some major decisions which I think will move my life closer to the person I eventually envision myself becoming.  Read More »

I'm sad that relationships can't seem to last these days; that time and time again, I find myself in abusive siduations where I'm being used; either for free childcare, or for sex, or as a sort of fifties housewife type; and just when I think I've bucked all of these stereotypes and just when I promise myself "I'll never do that again," I find myself doing that again..I seem to be attracted to abu  Read More »

So right now I'm up in Seattle at this amazing free festival known as Folk Life...and because of Folk Life, I've decided I'm going to learn Inuit Throat Singing.  Read More »

So the last couple of weekends, I've been dumpstering at large universities here in Portland, as the students move out of the dorms and head back to where-ever home is for them, and throw away amazing quantities of barely-used items. Some friends and I dumpstered at Lewis and Clark College and Reed, and, once again, I am appalled at the great wastefulness of American college students.  Read More »