Plaid potholders being readied for Maria’s Plaid Friday sale, this Friday, beginning at ll a.m. Details on her website.

I’ll be on the phone at Battenkill Books, Friday, from ll a.m. to 1 p.m.  518 677-2515 ready to talk to anyone buying a book from Connie at Battenkill Books. I’ll help take orders, which are coming in daily. We are  hoping to sell another 100 books this week,and 200 more by New Year’s. I love the idea of Plaid Friday, , the humanist response to our new national greed holiday, Black Friday. Plaid Friday exists to celebrate independent business and individuality. In my lifetime, I’ve seen the corporate ethos damage publishing, ruin media and culture, and gradually destroy or erode small business and community. Our economists, politicians and business leaders have decreed that individual enterprise is inefficient in the global economy, so they are destroying jobs and pharmacies and family doctors and lawyers and farmers and rural life and shipping viable jobs overseas, all in the name of modernity. Nuts to that. The other way was better.

Friday, I’m voting for community, individuals and independent businesses.