About

I’m photo shy. I like Lemony Snicket. And I’m not Muslim; it was just a cold November day in Japan.

Hi there. I’m Jennifer. I live in northern California with my blind rescue kitty Brie (sometimes called “Walnut” for her brain capacity, and sometimes “Toxokitty” for her history of toxoplasmosis) and my long-suffering spouse Kevin. I started this blog in 2009 as part of a work project to get links for a client, but it ended up turning into my own space to mouth off about the many environmental issues our planet is facing. Although there are scattered recipes and DIY tutorials and book reviews, this is mostly an idea and introspection driven blog.

In 10th grade, I learned the word ‘iconoclast’ and have been using it ever since. I don’t accept party lines without doing my own research. I don’t always condemn genetic engineering, and I don’t always condone organic food. I believe the problems we are facing are complicated, and any answers will also be complex and full of compromises. I’m not a scientist, but I am a rationalist and pragmatist. I hope this blog will give your brain something to gnaw on, wherever you are in your green journey.

I consider myself medium green. I’m happy to be a childfree vegetarian more fired by idealism than materialism, but I know there’s much more I could be doing.

I don’t really know what to say about me, so I’m going to throw some random factoids out there.

1. I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs test twice over a 10 year period and scored strongly as an INTJ both times.
2. My favorite wheel to be behind is a potter’s wheel. Yes, I fling mud recreationally. Sometimes I post pictures.
3. I took all my meals for a year in the great hall of a bona fide English castle. If you’ve never been to Durham in northern England, I highly recommend it.
4. I have never been on a diet.
5. My non-fiction bookshelf is dominated by books on food, poison, natural history, and mythology.
6. You will probably never meet me in real life.  I’ve worked with kids with Asperger’s who were more social than I am.
7. I have two degrees in literature, neither of which is proving to be spectacularly useful.
8. I told my parents when I was ten that I never wanted kids, and I haven’t changed my mind.
9. I’m not so much gender queer as gender indifferent. Given the whole lack of empathy/nurturing/social skills thing, I suspect I am bad at being female.
10. Patchouli gives me a headache.
11. I am terrible at remembering faces. This is probably related to my unsociability.
12.  I had a lot of nosebleeds as a child, and the vivid, iron-y smell of my own blood was one of the reasons why I eventually stopped eating meat.
13. I don’t suffer from triskaidekaphobia. I do suffer from sesquipedalianism.

You can contact me by leaving a comment, following me on Twitter, or emailing me at noteasy2begreen at gmail dot com.