You just finished reading your emails and all you know is some poor customer service rep at Denver Health is going to get an earful on their first day back from the holidays. Your fourth surprise medical bill this year will bring your total to $600 for three well visits. You thought well visits were […]
Tag: capitalism
Past life
I miss my old life. I miss my friends. I miss the regulars at Sunday night yoga–how we would all help the teacher close down the studio after the last class and linger chatting at the door. I miss my writing class in the LES studio apartment with a drafty window. I miss the bike […]
Experiments in capitalism: day 8
Ten days ago I had about five different employers. Over the course of last week at varying speeds and under different circumstances I lost all forms of income. I watched managers lay off employees. I watched businesses close their doors. I watched some stay open, hoping for the best. I spent a few days in […]
Changing the story, advice from Naomi Klein
I checked out This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein from the library in the fall. I renewed it the maximum amount of times which was three. Still unfinished I returned it to the library. I checked it out again. I renewed it three more times. I incurred late fees. And then […]
No matter how big or how small
Several weeks ago (idk how long but it was snowing out) late on a Sunday night I decided to take a train to a bus to get home. I hadn’t taken that particular route home before so I ended up waiting at a bus stop on a strange, dark corner of Brooklyn in the snow […]
I <3 naps
I found this website called The Nap Ministry and I think it’s great. (Image from the nap ministry.)
Bye bye Amazon
This year I considered making a New Year’s Resolution to not shop at Amazon anymore. But that failed pretty quickly. It’s just that they have all of the obscure books and all of the obscure homeopathic remedies (yes those are basically the two categories of things that I buy on Amazon). Actually, first I considered […]
It’s time to start talking about the end of capitalism
Recently there was an ordering mistake at the bakery and they ended up with about fifty pounds of extra bread. The pantries that we called just couldn’t handle any more bread donations. But there was a man on the train last night asking me for food. And there’s the Salvation Army a few blocks from […]
Where did you grow up?
I grew up in the country of capitalism. Yes, even more than America, I belong to capitalism. It is amazing to me, how much I belong to capitalism. Economic growth is good. Yes we need growth. Even if it means skinning the earth alive. I speak the language of jobs. Let’s create jobs. Each person […]
Go slow
My phone and I are very compatible. My phone is an iPhone 4 with two previous owners one of which was a four-year-old. I am a white girl born in 1988. We are both getting old. We are both slow. Apparently. After learning that I have an iPhone 4 people often ask me if it […]
Anne Foster 