How I'm Trying to Reduce My Waste During the Pandemic

How I'm Trying to Reduce My Waste During the Pandemic

Kellen McKillop
musings

Because of my fear of the virus, I am guilty of creating more waste than I did prior to quarantine. I have surgical masks, accept single-use plastic bags at the grocery stores (now back to bringing my own tote and washing it after returning home), Clorox wipes, and have spent a lot more time ordering things online—a shopping habit that boredom seems to have spiked… I knew I needed to change. I knew that I wanted to find ways to reduce my waste, even while living in a world that is focused on disinfecting.

A Millennial's Attempt to Garden

A Millennial's Attempt to Garden

Kellen McKillop
musings

Okay, so I didn’t really even try to garden… All I did was clean up the patio area outside of my apartment building with the help of my neighbor. Still—the work was different than what I’m used to. I have often romanticized this type of work. Using your hands to clean a space. To transform it from something broken, dirty, and forgotten into a precious place filled with magic. This wasn’t exactly what I experienced for myself…

5 Facts You Never Knew About Olive Oil

5 Facts You Never Knew About Olive Oil

Kellen McKillop
nourish

“Extra virgin olive oil” doesn’t mean much these days. However, during this experience, we discovered that that fact was just the tip of an iceberg (if icebergs were made out of olives). I’m now something of an olive oil snob and am hoping to be cast for in an olive oil interpretation of the movie Sideways.

What you don’t know about olive oil:

1. Your olive oil is probably too old

I don’t know about you, but before I participated in this experience, I kept olive oils in my pantry for years. It never crossed my mind that olive oil could go bad. It’s oil! But I was wrong. Olive oil actually goes bad after about four years. It’s best to use the oil within two years. Who knew?

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