It finally happened. My brother got married. After six months of bachelor parties, annoying questions from friends and relatives, and watching my brother’s poor new mother-in-law slowly pull every follicle of hair out of her overburdened head, my brother tied the knot with his grade-school sweetheart. Yes, people, they’ve been together since grade school. Continue reading ‘Should a wedding make you feel guilty?’
Tag Archive for 'environment'
I know I already wrote a blog post today, but I wanted to add a quick one to say “Happy Earth Day!”
The Angie’s List Tree Hugger Society was formed by Angie’s List employees to encourage environmentally friendly efforts on the Angie’s List campus and its surrounding neighborhood, and the Society, along with members of Angie’s List’s Handy Helpers volunteer group, celebrated Earth Day at lunch today with the kids from IPS School #14 here on the Near Eastside of Indy. Continue reading ‘P.S. - Happy Earth Day!’
When we started doing research for our green issue, I didn’t know much about building a “green” house. I figured if you turned the lights off when you left a room and turned the water off while you brushed your teeth, you were doing your part to help the environment. People who really knew what they were doing could add some solar panels to their home or replace their windows with new, low-e ones. But that was it, right?
I wouldn’t call my sister Teresa an activist, but I’m starting to change my thinking. She believes and supports many causes, but I don’t usually hear of her doing something about it (I think most of us are like that). So, when I got an e-mail from her earlier this week about her mission to implement two of the three R’s in the eco-friendly creed “reduce, reuse, recycle,” I was pleasantly surprised.
Teresa has been taking canvas bags to carry home her groceries in so that she doesn’t have to use the plastic ones (reduce, reuse — see?) On a recent trip, the cashier was obviously irritated by this, which in turn irritated Teresa. “I don’t think she liked messing with my bags. Pfft!” she wrote.
Irritable cashiers aside, I definitely believe it IS a good thing, and it was a small anecdote that jibed with my mental state here in the magazine department. My head was filled with thoughts of green this and that as I had just finished the update of Angie’s List magazine’s website, magazine.angieslist.com. Continue reading ‘Actually, green is my favorite color’
