Are you the trash lady?
Mar. 4th, 2026 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwWhen I was leaving my polling place on Monday (the young candidate lost. phooey), there were several people standing outside holding signs and so forth. I chatted briefly with someone (of the maybe eight campaigners, I knew three) and then someone said "Are you the trash lady?" I said "I used to be." We were on a town solid waste committee (1) together decades ago, a by-product of which was me writing a column about trash and recycling in the local weekly newspaper. (2) I said I see her sometimes walking through town but don't think we have stopped to talk in a very long time. I was masked and it was cold, so I had a warm hat pulled down low. How did she recognize me? My eyes? I had someone else say a few months ago that she recognized my eyes. Or maybe it was my voice? Even though we hadn't spoken in a long time, I might have known her voice as well. Hmm.
(1) the Solid Waste Action Team. Another member was Jill Stein, who at that time was just a local physician interested in recycling. And Myla Kabat-Zinn, with her two famous relatives in her surname. She wrote a book on parenting, so maybe she's famous in her own right? And other interesting people who aren't famous.
(2) The Lexington Minuteman newspaper for a hundred years or so was full of local stuff. When it was bought out by a conglomerate, there stopped being anything local except obituaries. My column had ended long before that. There are still people who write environmental stuff in the Lexington-based monthly free paper and maybe occasionally in the online Lexington Observer.
(1) the Solid Waste Action Team. Another member was Jill Stein, who at that time was just a local physician interested in recycling. And Myla Kabat-Zinn, with her two famous relatives in her surname. She wrote a book on parenting, so maybe she's famous in her own right? And other interesting people who aren't famous.
(2) The Lexington Minuteman newspaper for a hundred years or so was full of local stuff. When it was bought out by a conglomerate, there stopped being anything local except obituaries. My column had ended long before that. There are still people who write environmental stuff in the Lexington-based monthly free paper and maybe occasionally in the online Lexington Observer.
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Date: 2026-03-04 05:27 pm (UTC)Oh, balls. I was interviewed by them in 2013.
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Date: 2026-03-04 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-04 06:59 pm (UTC)Extremely!