Let me second Lori @8: shop at your Farmer's Market! You support local farmers, the money stays in your area, and less energy is spent to ship produce and meat to you from far away mega-farms/dairies/stockyards.
Also add:
*Learn a craft or hobby and MAKE gifts rather than buy something mass-produced (or buy from crafters). Handmade gifts are extra special.
*Start a compost heap.
*Recycle everything you can.
Thank you thank you thank you for posting all of this information! The lack of concern--or intellectual curiosity--that parents display is maddening and heartbreaking at the same time. To go around with the attitude that "well, everyone else's children will be immunized, so *my* kids don't need shots" is akin to child abuse. Not only for your own children but for all other children.
I had chicken pox at 4 or 5 (this was in the early 70s). When I was 9, my best friend got it, but everyone assumed I was immune and was allowed over to her house to play. I'm sure you can guess what happened... I ended up with herpes zoster. It liked my scalp, and I had the rash/bumps/sores all over my head, along my neck, and just to the tip of my chin. I was lucky it didn't travel to my face. It was *painful* and nasty and embarrassing, especially because I was in 4th grade. I still have bumpy scars on my neck--they look like burn scars.
As a result, I'm TERRIFIED to be around anyone--child or adult--who has come into contact with chicken pox recently. The vaccine has helped, but I'm still paranoid about it, as you can imagine.
And I agree: I'm sure that if people were more experienced with these diseases--if they heard babies with whooping cough or saw what rubella and diptheria could do--they'd be lined up at the clinic for shots *yesterday*.
"fruitbattery" is my best new favorite word!
elise #37: Glad I could help :)
David #40: Thanks! My Latin, she's not so good.
ajay #47: snort!
Hmmm... and to continue the theme of the "husbands hanging from a tree" would be a cookie depicting the witch's collection of penises (peni?) in a nest. Because nothing says "Happy Holidays" like the Malleus. I'd give good money to see my neighbors' faces when I hand out a tin of those this year! But I think I'll just stick with Shakespeare.
Thanks for all of the links. You feed our minds *and* our bellies!
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