Tag Archives: soap

Ethics

By laurenflax | Published: October 1, 2009
When I was working at Pangea, occasionally people would call or email with their ethical quandaries, as if by purveying vegan goods we were somehow paragons of vegan living. But, they looked to us for answers, so we had answers ready. Questions like “what should I do about underwear, because the rubber in the elastic [...]
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Harry Potter and the Big Fat No

By laurenflax | Published: August 6, 2009
Whop. I decided to lift my fiction embargo for the week we’re at the beach. At the strong yet subtle urging of the universe, I also decided that Harry Potter would be among my beach reading selections, along with a few books by Yasunari Kawabata, and maybe a yoga thing or two. I went to Borders [...]
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Bikram 2, 3 and 4, I Don't Hate It Anymore

By laurenflax | Published: April 22, 2009
I am glad that I have been practicing long enough to know that if I hate it, I need to try it some more. I went back to Bikram Saturday, Monday, and today, and I might be hooked. Friday must have been a particularly stinky morning, because while the studio still does smell, it has [...]
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It's for my complexion.

By laurenflax | Published: April 28, 2008
The last time my skin started looking lousy, I got it in my head that I needed to buy some black soap. I don’t know if I saw Annie Hall* one too may times in my youth or what, but over the summer I found myself trolling health food stores looking for black soap. I [...]
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