PO BOX THE EUROVAN

PO BOX THE EUROVAN
Joshua Tree National Park, CA

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Dirtbag Beauty Secret: Almond Oil for the Mountains

Benefits of Almond Oil (or, what almond oil does for me):
  • Prevents dry, wind-and-sun chapped skin
  • Reduces red, blotchy skin tone
  • My mom says it will prevent aging
  • It's delicious to cook with too!

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Green Tea is Better for Your Uterus

I really enjoy my first few moments back in the Midwest: even when the setting is the Northwest terminal of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. After months of living out of my van on the West Coast, people finally look familiar to me again.

The Case of the Sore Dingy


My sister, Toad, was the official witness. The conversation she described to me went something like this: Keefer, our twelve-year-old brother, is standing near the fireplace, pulling on his snow pants. He’s balancing on one foot and breathing through his teeth, struggling to get one foot through a pant leg that is turned up and inward at the ankle. His blond hair stands up on end as he begins to hop, kicking his leg out in front of him, trying to free his stuck foot.

“Mom, my dingy hurts,” he says, pausing for a moment from his flailing.

“You’re fine,” she says. Mom is searching through crates of snow gear, looking for her lost glove.

“But it hurts!” he says, sitting on the ground, continuing to fight the upturned pant leg.

Guiding in Bright Pink Long Underwear


“This next stretch should be fast,” I say to the group of women standing uphill from me. “Try to carry your speed to the road.” I point my skis down the fall line, but the snow is slower then I expected: I’m barely moving. The women behind me are laughing: none of them follow.