Category: Opinion

Ways of Seeing: Our clothing has us in a bind

Posted on May 30, 2013 |

• Opinion
• Ways of Seeing

By Abi Sessions

I am haunted by the photos of the April 24 garment factory building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where over 1,100 people died. Certainly there is no shortage of disturbing photos in the news from all over the world, but these have a particular tug for one simple reason — these people work for me. And I expect they work for you, too.

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Around the Bend: Keeping it simple, the hard way

Posted on May 23, 2013 |

• Opinion
• Around the bend
• Jessie Raymond
• Op/ed

By Jessie Raymond

Seven years ago, my husband, Mark, and I impulsively bought an old farmhouse, with land and a couple of barns. We set out to fulfill our dream of “the simple life”: tending animals and growing our own food.

Yes, we are idiots.

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The Outside Story: Bright, beautiful creatures advertise their secret weapons

Posted on May 20, 2013 |

• Opinion
• Op/ed
• The Outside Story

By Li Shen

In the natural world predation is relentless, and evading predators strongly favors the evolution of camouflage colors in animals. How contradictory then, for small, defenseless creatures — like red efts and monarch butterflies — to be sporting a bright shade of orange. But there is more to their cheerful color than meets the eye. Both the eft and the monarch are poisonous.

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Between the Lines: When a man's fancy turns to lawn mowing

Posted on May 16, 2013 |

• Opinion

By Greg Dennis

Is it just me, or can springtime seem a little overwhelming?

I get the part about how green and warm and wonderful it is. I’m reveling in it.

Even my cat is juiced about spring.

When I wouldn’t let him out one recent morning, he launched himself from an open second-story window and landed on the stone patio, 15 feet below. I found him down there, no worse the wear for his Superman imitation, licking his paws and purring.

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