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Ellen Sandbeck

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Ellen Sandbeck

Ellen Sandbeck is an organic landscaper, worm wrangler, writer, and graphic artist who lives with (and experiments on) her husband and an assortment of younger creatures -- which includes two mostly grown children, a couple of dogs, a small flock of... Read full bio

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Q. What were your previous occupations?
A. Baby sitter, roofer, housecleaner, landscaper, waitress (two hours), graphic designer, worm wrangler
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My life in 8 words: "Trying to figure things out."
February 4, 2010
I am being interviewed in an online conference on The Inkwell from February 3rd through the 14th. Five panelists have read...
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January 4, 2010
My friend Ed Newman, who is a very diligent and enthusiastic blogger, interviewed me about the very large art project I have...
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August 24, 2009
The Buffalo/Niagara Convention & Visitors Bureau informs us that Buffalo Chicken Wings were invented on Saturday, March 4, 1964,...
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August 24, 2009
A friend shared this charming little story with me after she read the “Toilet Rats” section of Organic Housekeeping: One...
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August 24, 2009
If you are extremely worried about the bacteria on your office telephone or computer, stop and think hard about where those...
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August 24, 2009
Into every manuscript the editing knife must fall. Here are some tasty morsels that landed on the editing room floor, but I...
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August 24, 2009
Frédéric Brochet, a researcher in the enology department at the University of Bordeaux, invited fifty-four wine-lovers to...
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August 24, 2009
A short while ago I taped an organic housekeeping segment for a television show in Winnipeg. The producer/star of the show had...
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August 24, 2009
Trade has been an integral component of human culture ever since the Stone Age, when people began trading their surplus goods,...
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August 24, 2009
One of the best things you can do for your own occupational health is to stop suffering quietly. If you have been having...
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August 24, 2009
EXHIBIT A) The True Blue Politician In these post 9/11 days of fluctuating "terror alert levels," flexible definitions of...
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August 24, 2009
In 1936 The New Yorker published Janet Flanner’s three-part profile of a prominent European. Her subject was a celibate,...
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August 24, 2009
Jeno Paulucci was born in Aurora, Minnesota in 1918, to Ettore and Michelin Paulucci, who had emigrated from Italy six years...
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August 24, 2009
In September of 2005, residents of the Majestic Oaks subdivision in Ocala, Florida, were informed by their homeowners...
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August 24, 2009
"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"   --  Albert Einstein In his book,...
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August 24, 2009
In September of 2004, three people were crushed to death, and sixteen were injured in a stampede at an Ikea furniture store in...
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August 24, 2009
Now that our hands are sparkling clean, what about everyone else’s germy mitts? How do we keep our food from being...
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Author Appearance:
Ellen Sandbeck will be at BOHEMIAN CLUB,624 Taylor Street,San Francisco on 10/20 See details
Oct 18, 2010
Excerpt:
Introduction from Green Barbarians
Mar 02, 2010
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Feb 22, 2010
Author Voices:
A Buddha A Day
Jan 05, 2010
Green Barbarians is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Dec 29, 2009
Green Barbarians will be released on December 29, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 29, 2009
Green Barbarians will be released on December 29, 2009 in eBook
Dec 29, 2009
Green Barbarians is now available in eBook
Dec 29, 2009
Excerpt:
Prologue from Green Barbarians
Nov 20, 2009
Sep 11, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What’s your greatest fear?
Sep 11, 2009
Sep 11, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Which living person do you most admire?
Sep 11, 2009
Sep 11, 2009

Ellen Sandbeck Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. She who makes the most creative mistakes, wins. Q. What is your greatest achievement? A. My two children are smart, happy, healthy, and beautiful. Q. What’s your fantasy profession? A. Japanese pearl diver Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. I'd Like to Check You for Ticks, Brad Paisley; Hard Times, Stephen Foster; Fields of Gold, Sting; Garden Song, David Mallet; We'll Make Our Garden Grow, From Candide, by Leonard Bernstein Q. What’s your best quality? A. I cannot be railroaded into doing anything I think is wrong. Learn more about Ellen Sandbeck