by guest blogger Pam Fullerton, psychotherapist and writer I learned something valuable this week that I would like to share it with you. But first, a little reflection on something I wrote last week, because it’s connected to what I learned this week. In a recent post on my blog I wrote about “How to […]
Love & Family
Dear Reader
Dear Reader, Thank you for your patience over this past summer. My blogging has been less than consistent. As you might have seen, I did a lot of traveling! Iceland, England, France, Iowa, Memphis…some of which I haven’t even had the chance to write about yet. And most importantly, I delivered my second daughter to […]
Roma for the Preschooler
by guest blogger Andeep Singh, documentarian and television and Web video producer Before heading to Rome this summer, I read all the books and blogs I could find about what to do in the city with kids. Most of the tips focused on how to manage babies (who, let’s face facts, don’t have the most […]
Happy Labor Day!
Wishing you health, healing, and a happy Labor Day! —Maria Related Posts:Happy Labor Day!Labor of Love: Celebrating the American WorkerHow to Keep That Feeling of Vacation Anticipation All Year Long
Recurgitating Makes Me Hangry, and Other Thoughts on Neologisms
by guest blogger Renee James, humorist and blogger By now you may have recovered from your initial outrage over the new words the Oxford English Dictionary authorized in its latest edition. If you missed the stories about it, read on. You may feel dismayed/bemused/horrified about any number of these new words, phrases, and initialisms that […]
What If You Had $1 Billion Dollars and a Permanent Vacation?
The other day, I had lunch with a friend who’s obsessed with bats. Literally. He travels around the world with this guy named Merlin and studies bats. My bat-obsessed friend sent me some videos from his bat-studier friend, Merlin Tuttle, to watch (he dared me to watch, anyway). The first one I chose had the […]
Crayons, Clubhouses, and Crushes: Women Are Going Girlie
Sometimes the universe is trying to tell you something. Just listen, and there it is: the wisdom you’ve been seeking. The inspiration you’d hoped would come. The guidance you needed to change course. In my dotage, I’ve found that being open to these kinds of messages can sometimes be its own reward. Then again, I […]
The Lessons of Bees
On National Honey Bee Day, let’s give props to our pollinators and, maybe, learn how to be better humans. by guest blogger Jeff Csatari, executive editor of Men’s Health and Women’s Health books Once upon a time…I was a bee. During the summer before my senior year of high school, I pollinated apricot trees for […]
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.
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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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