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Catching up on 2016 Blogs

Posted by Annette Olson

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After a hiatus in 2016, I did have some adventures here and there.  This time, I started on a new blog where I don’t keep having to change the domain name each year:  adventuresacrosstheyears.wordpress.com.  I start off with a train … Continue reading →

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Dec·19

A new blog

Posted by Annette Olson

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So, I decided to take a break in 2016 on my adventure blog, because it was quite “me” oriented, despite my efforts to volunteer.   Plus I was exploring a new relationship.  I will post a couple new adventures I had, … Continue reading →

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Nov·16

The last adventure of 2015

Posted by Annette Olson

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This month I had already done my new volunteer activity for Metro teen AIDS,  and eaten my new food (Dragon fruit) – all that was left was to do something unusual, like learn how to weld.  Which would have been … Continue reading →

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Tagged boyfriend, Christmas, holidays, meeting the parents, MIami, parents, relationships

Jan·01

Dragon fruit

Posted by Annette Olson

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My final new food of 2015 was the dragon fruit, or Pitaya, which includes the fruit of  several species of night-blooming cacti in the genus Hylocereus, and which is quite delicious.  Just slice in half, scoop out the flesh, slice, … Continue reading →

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Tagged adventures, burning chocolate, cactus fruit, chocolate charcoal, chocolate fire, dragonfruit

Dec·22

Volunteer to save lives from HIV

Posted by Annette Olson

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This week, I and a number of other volunteers assisted the organization Metro Teen AIDS by assembling safe sex kits. The group provides condoms and information about safe sex to teenagers who can’t afford condoms, or who don’t think they … Continue reading →

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Tagged AIDS, help, HIV, kits, safe sex

Dec·20

Wrap Art

Posted by Annette Olson

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Well, my volunteer activity for November definitely, absolutely changed the world. In an attempt to get a new type volunteering done within the month (each month it has to be a different type), I volunteered to wrap presents at the … Continue reading →

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Tagged adventures, artists, artists-in-residence, clothing, collage, jewelry, painting, pottery, studios, wrapping presents

Nov·30

Yampee

Posted by Annette Olson

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Yampee.  Yampee.  I like having you in my life now.  Welcome to the land of being broiled, and who knows what else.    All because of a visit to a Korean supermarket, looking for a food adventure.  I walked out with … Continue reading →

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Tagged adventures, broiled potato, cultivated yam, cush-cush, home fries, Indian yam, Korean markets, yampee

Nov·22

Hot Air Ballooning

Posted by Annette Olson

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Please don’t tell my dad I did this. (He rarely checks the blog, being a dawn-to-dusk-to-recliner farmer.)  I originally planned to balloon with friends on my birthday almost two years ago, but the trip was rained out.  Shortly after, a … Continue reading →

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Tagged adventures, ballooning, Birthday, friends, heights, hot air ballooning, risks, Shenadoah Valley, West Virginia, Woodstock VA

Nov·07

Face-painting kids on Halloween is a Treat

Posted by Annette Olson

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Thank goodness for my friend Michelle asking for volunteers to help with face-painting at our Halloween block party!  I was so crazed with work I hadn’t even thought of my volunteer activity for the month of October.  And here it … Continue reading →

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Tagged art, children, face-painting, Halloween, kids, Petworth

Nov·02

Schwooxie squash

Posted by Annette Olson

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Schwooxie squash is how you pronounce what is known as schwoughksie squash in New York.  I found that out (via the omni-knowledge source known as Wikipedia, where I also got the public domain photo). How can one not fixate on … Continue reading →

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Tagged camping, cargo, dolphins, First Landing State Park, grilling, patty pan squash, pattypan squash, petit squash, schwoughksie squash, Virginia Beach

Nov·01

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2015 Adventures

  • Catching up on 2016 Blogs
  • A new blog
  • The last adventure of 2015
  • Dragon fruit
  • Volunteer to save lives from HIV
  • Wrap Art
  • Yampee
  • Hot Air Ballooning
  • Face-painting kids on Halloween is a Treat
  • Schwooxie squash
  • A Southern Plantation in Louisiana
  • Atlanta
  • Purple mini-bananas
  • Dog Adoption Drive
  • Sapotes, Annapolis, and A Walk in the Woods
  • SAFARI!
  • A Korean melon, and a cleanup.
  • Catch up: mullein, KEEN, a reunion, mini-zucchini, and apnea
  • Guitar Lessons
  • Being a tourist in my own hometown
  • Pepino Melon
  • Parade Balloon Handler. Really.
  • Laser Power
  • Kiwano Melon
  • 70 packets
  • XC Skiing
  • The Supremes, a King, and Burwell
  • Air Force Memorial
  • Chayotes
  • Books to Prisons
  • Romanesque Green Cauliflower
  • Polar Bear Plunge!
  • Flotation Therapy, i.e., a Sensory Deprivation Tank
  • Should I, or shouldn’t I, do the Polar Bear Plunge?

Recent Adventure Posts: Adventures Across the Years

Adventures in 2019 – Catching Up: Bahrain

I was on NPR!

Pearl Fryer’s Topiary Garden and other random art in or near Columbia, S. Carolina.

Giving Testimony on Climate Change in front of the DC City Council

My Solar Panel Installation — on Earth Day, No Less

Political Rally – with Beto

The Corn Maze

Sleeper Car on the Train

Night of the Environmentalists – Veggie Potluck & Outdoor Movie

An Impulse to Get Inked

Samples of Previous Adventures: adventuresacross2014

SAFARI!

Adventures Across 2015 have started — in a Sensory Deprivation Tank!

The Year 2014 in Adventures

Candlemaking with my Dad

Glassblowing

Juniper and Elder Berries

Longwood Gardens

Simply through a Lens

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

SE Oklahoma, aka Indian Nation

My New Blog: Climate Steps™

Climate Steps awarded tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Status!

Although we’ve been a registered nonprofit in Washington DC since December 2020, we’re now (finally) federally registered as a tax-exempt organization by the IRS! That means donations are tax-exempt for contributors (hint, hint). Thank you to Barry Hart and Laura Gregory of the law firm K&L Gates for their pro bono efforts in helping create … Continue reading Climate Steps awarded tax-exempt 501(c)(3) Status!

Now is the Moment to Pressure Global Leaders to Step Up Their Climate Game.

By Dr. Krista Kurth, 10/11/2021 Dr. Krista Kurth has given us permission to repost her very timely and action-focused blog: https://www.climateactionforeverydaypeople.com/post/now-s-the-moment-to-pressure-global-leaders-to-step-up-their-climate-game Here’s what you can do to help up the ante before COP 26 With the Global Climate Conference (COP 26) coming up on October 31, 2021, it’s time to let the leaders in your … Continue reading Now is the Moment to Pressure Global Leaders to Step Up Their Climate Game.

The new logos for taking Climate Steps

For the new, next level Climate Steps (aka the version 2.0 that is coming), we have new logos, care of the pro bono work of designer Clare Talbot, of http://www.clarevoyant.com, and our Facebook group’s major voting and feedback. One result – a logo series that tells the story of what we are about – reversing … Continue reading The new logos for taking Climate Steps

Free Public Transportation, the Time is Now!

By David Schwartzman….free transportation, …. [results in] money saved in hospital admittance due to asthma, in ambulance and police services, in paving and repaving, …..

The 6th IPCC Report – Share it. Here’s How.

Today, I woke up at 8:00 am to read about the 2021 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report being released:  https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/; https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/climate/climate-change-report-ipcc-un.html. The 14,000 studies behind it yielded a consensus on what many of us in the climate arena expected – we are basically locked in at 1.5 degrees Celsius more warming. We … Continue reading The 6th IPCC Report – Share it. Here’s How.

Waste Basket

Reflection, in Honor of Plastic-Free July. This is a waste basket, the kind made out of waste. The broken base of it came from the free box of a garage sale last Saturday. The plastic ribbons are single-use plastic packaging used to ship construction materials: three of the four colors picked up off the floor … Continue reading Waste Basket

Tiny Houses Fight Global Warming

Tiny houses have been around for as long as humans have sought shelter, but lately they are becoming a more popular[1] choice in housing internationally, offering alternatives for people who want their own house but, for a variety of reasons, don’t want a traditional, single-family home.

Three Practical, Social Climate Steps with Ripple Effects

“….The roadmap to improving perceptions of conservation starts with reminding individuals that their neighbors care about it.”

Public Consultation – Providing Your Input.

By Anshika S. and Annette Olson Known as Public Consultation in the British Commonwealth and in European nations, and often as Public Testimony and/or Commenting in the United States (U.S.), governments around the world that have forms of free speech have processes for seeking public inputs on laws, regulations, and other forms of policy. Climate … Continue reading Public Consultation – Providing Your Input.

The Three Submarine Engineers – Chapter 3

Now and Next This is the last chapter in the story of three sharp engineers, who decided to make a difference – and write childrens’ books.  Read the first two episodes if you haven’t yet:  …Chapter 1: the story of why [link] and Chapter 2: the how’s of planning children’s books and learning to rhyme … Continue reading The Three Submarine Engineers – Chapter 3

The Adventure Rules

The goal: To stretch and grow, as well as to look forward, instead of behind. So each month, I plan three adventures:

A New Food: As in 2014, the 'something new' has to be a truly new type of action for me; for instance, the new food has to be a new fruit or vegetable that I have never eaten before. I’m vegetarian, so there will be no eating of bizarre insects, thank you. But I am prepared for my taste buds to be disgusted, bored, or enthralled.

A New Activity or Place: These have to involve a little effort or courage. A new movie, concert, or a new restaurant does not count. It has to be a new type of music in a new concert hall, a new city, a new type of art class. Btw, hot-air ballooning is still on the list.

A New Volunteer Effort. This will be something I haven't done before, and each month will be different. Potentially I could mix all three up, say by volunteering to be a taster at a durian pie-making contest at a world's fair, but my goal for the volunteer effort is to help people and the planet, so the likelihood is that each month will have three different adventures. We shall see.

Famous quote to go with this: “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” G. K. Chesterton.

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