Photo © Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc I can still see it. I can still FEEL it and smell it. I was standing over a little record player and watching the record turn as the needle moved over and landed. The scratchy sound before the music starts…and then there it was: “You ain’t nothing but a […]
Love & Family
Judgment Day
So I was at a party and an old acquaintance came up to me and we were talking. He said something to the effect of “Nice party” and then dropped this bomb on me, “After all, you can always judge a person by their friends.” Really? I was swept back to a beautiful day at […]
Where Has All the Real News Gone?
I’ve always loved my local paper, the Allentown Morning Call. After all, where else am I going to see who has died that I might know, find a good Pennsylvania Dutch recipe I’ve been wondering about, read about the guy who was all drugged up and threw a can of baked beans at a car, […]
My Favorite Summer Memories
This one is for you, Jaa, who asked me to write about my favorite summer memories… The Barn Until I was seven (when my grandfather passed away), the farm I lived on was a veritable organic farm fantasy, and the barn was my castle. It was always stacked with hay bales, and in its cool […]
How I Raise My Kids
Dear Yen, this one is for you! I’m always a little reluctant to write about raising my kids because I know it’s a fragile balance that could all go horribly wrong in an instant. Which means being a mother is something you should never take for granted. (I write this as my littlest almost-7-year-old snuggles […]
How to Get Unwired
(For Less Than $400 a Day)
by guest blogger Renee James, essayist and blogger Just two weeks ago, in this very space, I remarked about the cyber-connections many of us have to just about anything you could name, how that’s supposed to be some kind of 21st-century bonus, and why I tend to see things like this as the beginning […]
When Four Authors Went Rogue…
by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure We were all on deadline. We had books to write and promote, as well as personal lives. We didn’t have time for this mad, rogue project that had once been rejected and would take a fair bit of work to bring to […]
Make Time to Make History
by guest blogger Jeff Csatari, executive editor of special projects for Men’s Health It’s way too easy to say, “I just don’t have the time.” With the kids’ swim meets and horseback-riding lessons, family obligations, and deadlines to meet at work—in other words, in the rush of real life—how to you find time to pause […]
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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