My cat has the life. Her biggest decisions are whether to pee and poo indoors or out, and whether to nap in the basement in the baby carriage (where it’s high and dry and warm) or in my favorite chair on a cashmere blanket in a patch of sunlight. Sometimes, I resent her for that. […]
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Where Will Your Journey Take You Next?
Recently, I have been reading Gloria Steinem’s new book, My Life on the Road. I’ve always proudly called myself feminist, but the truth is, I’ve never read anything by Gloria before. Let’s be clear right up front, though: This is not a blog about feminism; this is a blog about life. So there I was, […]
Help Us Librarians, You’re Our Only Hope
by guest blogger Renee James, humorist and blogger I have hope. An article I read last week gave me hope for our future. And just in time, too, given the fact that we have another full year of election coverage to go before we elect a new president and every single one of us could […]
Sign Off the Internet and Start Reading Outside
by guest blogger Maya Rodale, author of smart and sassy romance novels Stop reading this blog. It’s summer and you should turn off the Internet, pick up a book, and take it outside to a hammock, a park bench, poolside, or anyplace that makes the polar vortex a distance memory. But before you go… Read […]
Ode to Tom Robbins
I vividly remember my first Tom Robbins book. It was Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and I first spotted it in my father’s reading pile. “What on earth,” I thought to myself, “was my dad doing with a book that looked so very interesting?” I did what any good daughter would do: I “borrowed” it. […]
7 Things I Learned about Life from Romance Novels
by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure In days of yore, there was a tremendous fear that young, impressionable youths would be corrupted by what they read in novels. An 18th-century conduct book warned against reading novels because they “raise expectations of extraordinary adventures and cause readers to admire […]
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, […]
Listening to Signs from Nature
We are used to thinking about nature as sending “messages” with big things like weather and earthquakes—though we often scoff at the idea as superstition. But there is a whole tradition around the world of looking at the little signs from nature and examining the personal messages that may be there for us. This morning […]
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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