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Trying a new activity or new food – every week of 2014

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Ghost Squash

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No time this week for finding a crazy adventure – too much work I’m afraid.  But I hadn’t had an unusual food for a while, so I decided to quickly find a bizarre food item to eat.  I sat at … Continue reading →

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Tagged adventures, food, ghost squash, medicine, side effects, squash, sweet tooth, taste

Nov·09

Acupuncture

Posted by Annette Olson

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Curiosity can lead to things that go up against one’s beliefs, in this case acupuncture v. scientific proof in medicine.  I’m a biologist, have taught pre-med biology, and grew up on a ranch, so I have a very good understanding … Continue reading →

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Tagged acupuncture, belief, medicine, needles, pain management, placebo effect, science, scientific research

Aug·03

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My new blog:: Climate Steps

Trees

Trees. Gorgeous and calming, providing homes for birds and other life, they also help clean the air of carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. And, if planted in a city or in your backyard, will cool during the summer and warm in the winter. So here’s a brief list of tips to consider about helping save […]

Fuzzy Socks

As I sit huddled in a fluffy robe, unwilling to turn on the boiler yet because it is just too early in the season to turn on the heat (and because it requires moving some stuff in the basement first), I contemplate the many other ways I have and still need to keep warm. First, […]

Recirculating Stuff

After we ourselves “Reuse” something, but before we “Recycle” it, there is a concept we really need to become aware of and do: we need to “Recirculate.” In other words….

SCORE!

Glacial Pace: The Face of Change

….observing the distance of glacial retreat as measured by year markers drew gasps from nearly everyone…

Climate Steps for the Extreme Beginner

How would I even start doing something about those things? I think I’ll crawl under the covers and hope someone else figures this stuff out. … But wait!….

Recent Posts: Adventures Across the Years

I was on NPR!

Pearl Fryer’s Topiary Garden and other random art in or near Columbia, S. Carolina.

Giving Testimony on Climate Change in front of the DC City Council

My Solar Panel Installation — on Earth Day, No Less

Political Rally – with Beto

The Corn Maze

Sleeper Car on the Train

Night of the Environmentalists – Veggie Potluck & Outdoor Movie

An Impulse to Get Inked

A vegetarian for 25 years – where has that gotten the world?

Some of the: AdventuresAcross2015

Catching up on 2016 Blogs

A new blog

The last adventure of 2015

Dragon fruit

Volunteer to save lives from HIV

Wrap Art

Yampee

Hot Air Ballooning

Face-painting kids on Halloween is a Treat

Schwooxie squash

2014 Adventures

  • SAFARI!
  • Adventures Across 2015 have started — in a Sensory Deprivation Tank!
  • The Year 2014 in Adventures
  • Candlemaking with my Dad
  • Glassblowing
  • Juniper and Elder Berries
  • Longwood Gardens
  • Simply through a Lens
  • Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
  • SE Oklahoma, aka Indian Nation
  • Ghost Squash
  • Sharks at the National Aquarium
  • Seneca Rocks and Canaan Valley, West Virginia
  • Emergency Drill Actor – Part 2
  • Emergency Drill Actor
  • Woodworking
  • Hamsterball
  • TechShop
  • The Festival of Vegetarians
  • Created Hot Plasma in the Microwave – with Grapes
  • Tatsoi
  • Threw a Pot
  • Batting and Birding
  • Demolition Derby, or Violence via Vehicles
  • The Segway Experience, or How to Accelerate using your Toes
  • Acupuncture
  • Biked from Work
  • Fencing
  • Cold Spring, NY
  • Malanga Root
  • Chemical Peel and Kayak Roll
  • Chemical Peel
  • Women in Art
  • Franciscan Monastery
  • DC’s Gay Pride Parade
  • Samulnori
  • Biked to Work, and to Shop
  • Storytelling at Speakeasy DC
  • Fenugreek and Marshmallow
  • Joined a Bikeshare
  • Charm City Roller Derby!
  • Ballet – Live!
  • Mini tourist sites DC
  • The Day of the Panhandles, and Liberal, Kansas
  • Peirce Mill
  • Modern jazz at an old joint
  • A new Oklahoma
  • Red Bean Ice Cream and a Korean bathhouse
  • Faint in Boss’s Office
  • Dandelion Root
  • Snowtubing
  • Discovery
  • The Five Statues of Lafayette Square
  • Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
  • Snowshoeing
  • Quebec
  • The Start of a Blog

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The rules

The objective: Try something new each week for the year 2014.

The goal: To stretch and grow, as well as to look forward, instead of behind.

The rules: The 'something new' has to be a truly new type of action for me; for instance, a new fruit or vegetable that I have never eaten before. I’m vegetarian, so there will be no eating of bizarre insects, thank you. But I am prepared for my taste buds to be disgusted, bored, or enthralled. Preferably, I’ll be looking into new activities, those that involve a little effort or courage. A new movie, concert, or a new restaurant does not count. It has to be a new type of music in a new concert hall, a new city, a new type of art class. Every week. Hot-air ballooning is on the list, as is going to see a roller derby. Some weeks will be small, quick things (as I do sometimes have deadlines at work), but at least one activity per month has to be ‘a big deal.’

So why the blog? To help keep me on track, and hopefully to gather ideas from others as to options.

Famous quote to go with this: A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. ('Salt from My Attic' by John A. Shedd, Portland Maine, the Mosher Press 1928).

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Blogs I Follow

  • happify
  • Climate Pledge Collective
  • Olympic Climate Action
  • Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice
  • Artists & Climate Change
  • Sustainable Anna
  • The Zero Waster
  • Climate Action Alliance of the Valley
  • Voices for climate
  • Climate Change
  • Writing Science
  • Nicholas Scott, Ph.D.
  • adventuresacross2014
  • Climate Museum UK
  • Climate Change Awareness and Action
  • Seasonings
  • Green Minded Me
  • Small World
  • Brigitte's Banter
  • Rachel
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manufacturers of happiness for the lovely world

Climate Pledge Collective

Climate breakdown threatens our future. There are solutions, but it will take millions of us to set them in motion.

Olympic Climate Action

North Olympic Peninsula residents addressing human-made climate disruption. Washington State, U.S.A.

Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice

Building museums' capacity to promote awareness, mitigation & resilience in the face of climate change

Artists & Climate Change

Celebrating artists who explore the intersection of arts & climate change.

Sustainable Anna

How I ditched everything Made in China and went green

The Zero Waster

Climate Action Alliance of the Valley

Working toward a sustainable future for all

Voices for climate

Climate Change

Writing Science

How to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded

Nicholas Scott, Ph.D.

mobilities, environments, social movements, cities

adventuresacross2014

Trying a new activity or new food - every week of 2014

Climate Museum UK

Mobile museum for the climate emergency

Climate Change Awareness and Action

Seasonings

Just a little poetry...

Green Minded Me

the other kind of green

Small World

Articles and analysis of world news

Brigitte's Banter

Ban·ter : "To speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner."

Rachel

A New Zealander living in Scotland who loves cargo bikes and definitely not a quiet Australian

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