It’s a beautiful delight when someone you know and care about writes a memoir, and you get to peek inside her adventure. One of my favorite romance authors, Eloisa James, just crossed over into nonfiction with her charming memoir of a year spent in Paris with her husband and two kids.
Books & Movies
How Romance Novels
Empower Women
by guest blogger Maya Rodale. Romance novels, often dismissed as antifeminist, were actually once seen as having revolutionary power deserving of vigorous government response.
Why The Artist is The Perfect
Movie For These Times
The Artist didn’t win all those awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture, because it was a silent movie made 80 some years after silent movies were “over.” It won because it showed us – with a delicious and simple story – that through the turbulent changes of technology, the basic human needs are the same.
On the Future of Food
The older I get, and the more I believe in the power of nature and the universe, the more magic happens (fueled significantly by Hard Work). Case in point: a little book we just published called The Prince’s Speech—On the Future of Food.
The Prince’s Speech:
A Love Poem to the Future
by guest blogger Laurie David. They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but when I heard Prince Charles’s speech about the future of food, I felt the same kind of jolt I felt the first time I saw Al Gore’s slide show on global warming.
Unbinding the Heart
by guest blogger Agapi Stassinopoulos. There are no seven or eight simple steps to unbind our hearts, but there is one choice that we all have, and this is our golden opportunity in every moment of every day, whatever small or big challenges it brings: Do I shut down or do I choose to open up one more time, even deeper?
10 Great Movies about “Women Finding Themselves”
I’m not sure that “Women Finding Themselves” is an actual official genre of movies, but I have to say, it’s my favorite unofficial genre. So here is my list, in no particular order of my favorite “Women Finding Themselves” movies
Vitamin D in a Book:
Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country
I have read thousands of books in my life and I have never laughed so hard, so often, and so deeply (yes, that was the sound of my lungs squeegeeing). I actually had a woman on a plane turn to me and ask me, “What on earth are you reading?”
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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