I must confess I have a soft spot for Gerard Depardieu. While you make fun, millions and millions of women around the world are devouring anything he does, just as they devour romances. He is not one genre, not a romance hero, a good guy, or a bad guy, he’s just someone who has managed to make a lot of great movies over a whole lifetime.
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10 Things I Always Knew Were Good for Me*
Growing up as I did around the world’s leading health experts, it’s hard not to get swept up in the latest fads. I had to develop an expert sense of my own. It’s called common sense. And it turns out my common sense has been proven to be correct over time by lots of scientific and medical research.
In Praise of Room Service
by guest blogger Maya Rodale. Recently, I found myself in a hotel room, alone for a two-night stay. While I was there, I indulged in an epic writing binge, cranking out 11,000 words in one day. For a frame of reference, that’s what I’d normally write in a week… My husband asked what needed to happen for me to write that much every day. The answer is room service.
Can a Woman Have It All?
Lately, there has been a flurry of op-eds and articles on this penetrating question. Yes, I read the piece in The Atlantic and I watched a few network TV ladies trying to assuage their guilt and figure it out, and I, as a working woman and mother, have this to say: Y’all are asking the wrong damn question!!!!!
5 Things I Discovered
while Home Alone
Some strange confluence of activities meant I had my first weekend home alone that I can remember. Probably in forever. I love my kids, of course I do. And I want them all to return home safely. But I must say I learned a lot about myself this weekend that I don’t want to forget.
Four Essentials of a Healthy Cleanse
by guest blogger Isaac Eliaz, MD. Spring and summer bring us wonderful warm weather, offering an ideal opportunity to engage in a gentle seasonal cleanse. A gentle cleanse can not only eliminate toxins in the body and improve your health and vitality, it can also help improve mental clarity and emotional stability; balance blood sugar, reducing cravings and crashes; increase strength, flexibility and stamina, and more.
Milkweeds and Monarchs
Once, a few years ago, I saw these incredible flowers—kind of like giant mauve disco-ball chandeliers. When I inquired, I was told they were an incredibly invasive species of weed known as milkweed. I decided right then and there that I had to have some.
4 Summer House Party Tips
by guest blogger Maya Rodale. Once upon a time, people held fabulous house parties, in which days and weeks were full of new friends, parties, delightful diversions, and, quite possibly, compromising positions and marriage proposals. I think we should bring back the house party, perhaps on a less grand scale, and summer is the perfect time to do it.
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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