What makes a project green from Amicus Green & Index Card Cure™

I visited Amicus Green Building Center with my friend, Liz last week. It is a design center and home improvement store in Kensington, MD offering products screened for health and environmental integrity. The word, “amicus,” meaning friend in Latin, embodies what the Center represents and strives for– products, principles, and practices that are friendly to…

Close encounters with Index Cards!

  Serendipitously,  (in the middle of a stressful week which I elevated the worst case of poison ivy into something even worse by getting another rash on top of it which was an allergic reaction to the allergic reaction I was having to the poison ivy!) I was handed an index card by the pharmacist…

Always carry an index card…

From Anne Lamott (in Bird by Bird ) on index cards. I’m a fan of the author and of index cards! I have index cards and pens all over the house—by the bed, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, by the phones, and I have them in the glove compartment of my car. I carry one…

Happy Inter-dependence Day

On the 2nd of July in 1776, Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming its intention to divorce Great Britain. In spite of firmly entrenched British law and customs, and the economic dependence on England, the colonies were simmering pots of independent thinkers.  Separate interests emerged in the interdependent societies.  While some might argue it was…