I know it’s after Thanksgiving, but it’s never too late to be thankful. And 2009 feels like it’s been a really, really hard year. Still, I’m wondering if I can come up with a list that we can all agree on…because it feels like there has been so much divisiveness in the world these days. […]
Random Thoughts
The Adventures of Pumkin the Cat: Conclusion!
In Part 1, Pumpkin came into our lives, only to vanish mysteriously. In Part 2, the search for Pumpkin seemed hopeless. Part 3: “Guess what we found?” Eve asked. “Pumkin?” I asked, hopefully. “Yes!” She said. “Alive?” I asked with trepidation. “Yes!” she said with joy. “I know it’s her because as soon as she […]
A Halloween Story: The Adventures of Pumpkin the Cat
In part 1, Pumkin came into our lives, only to vanish shortly before Halloween. Part 2: We searched all over for Pumkin. We drove around the mountain. We asked the neighbors if she’d been spotted. We went to the local animal shelter and looked for her. She had one of those ID chips implanted in […]
Halloween Story: The Adventures of Pumkin the Cat
When I was a little girl and sick in bed, I vividly remember my fuzzy gold blanket draped around my little legs. It transported me to the dunes of the Sahara. I would dream of adventures riding a camel across the desert. The sun coming in my window would make the dust sparkle like daytime […]
Goodbye Gourmet Magazine
In the magazine business, we are used to hearing about magazines launching and shutting down all the time. Still, when you hear of a magazine’s demise, it deserves a moment of silence with the secret thought: “There but for the grace of God, go I.” But when you hear about Conde Nast closing Gourmet magazine…well, […]
The End of GDP: A New Economic Model Closer to Nature
I hate it when I have an idea, and then Nobel Prize-winning economists get all the credit for thinking of it first. That’s what happened last week when I read in the New York Times about Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen (my all-time favorite economist) recommending that we do away with Gross Domestic Product […]
Women’s Rights: All We Take for Granted
I know it’s more than a week ago—old news—that Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (authors of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, to be released next week by Knopf) wrote an epic cover story in The New York Times Magazine about women’s rights around the world (or lack thereof). But […]
What We Can Learn about Working with People from Working with Horses
I’m one of those women who would have been horse-crazy as a girl if my parents had allowed it. So I tentatively began learning about horses after I grew up. One of the places I started at was called Last Chance Ranch (doesn’t that sound like a great title for a romance novel?). There, Lori […]
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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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