Leaving Home
When I came to Maine from Colorado, I left behind a small log house on four lots in a mountain town of about 1,000 people. I was fortunate enough to find good renters. I’d never been a landlady before, but the prospect of renting was less overwhelming than actually...
Projection
Projection is a defense mechanism used to displace the responsibility of one’s negative and unacknowledged feelings, behavior, beliefs and choices by attributing them to someone else. The goal of projection is to create a distraction that helps avoid ownership and...
The Politics of Food: Ideology
This is a third post in a series in which I've questioned the relationship between American dietary standards and health and written about my own personal journey with diet. This week I'll focus on some of the ideology embedded in diet and food production. In my first...