One of the greatest perks of travel is meeting new people. Conversation starters are easy: “Where are you headed today?” or “Are you traveling on business or pleasure?” If both sides engage, you will quickly arrive at...
One of Marci Murphy-Fedderson’s main gardening goals this year is to plant a raspberry bush. While this might seem like a modest undertaking, it’s more impressive when you consider that the 51-year-old Utah woman doesn’t live on...
When Berry Hines retired from the military in 1994, he was plagued with a host of medical conditions, including a floppy foot, slurred speech, reflux and a mini stroke. At that time, he and his wife Annie decided to eliminate processed foods,...
Back when my son was born at the end of the last century, my eco-friendly energies focused on serving him organic food and deciding whether conscience would permit the use of disposable diapers. Like many green-leaning consumers, personal care...
Every evening at 7 o’clock, my 89-year-old mother walks the short distance from her cottage in my back yard up the driveway and around to my front door. The ring of the doorbell signals the start of our nightly dinner ritual. Henry, my...
With money tight and the holiday season upon us, can you really blame anyone for scooping up name-brand boots, billfolds and CDs from street vendors or flea markets, or going online to score too-good-to-be true bargains? Okay, the merchandise may...
When I told my fourteen-year-old son that I was writing my November blog about fracking, he gave me a curious look, as if the word in question was quite possibly obscene.
For the uninitiated, fracking – short for hydraulic fracturing...
Last month at a green bed and breakfast in Warsaw, Poland, I requested a glass of “sok pomaranczowy” (orange juice).
“Oranges,” the proprietor gently chided, “are not grown in Poland. May I offer you apple...
Increasingly, Americans are challenging the prevailing throwaway mentality that has led to filled-to-capacity landfills and environmental degradation by lifestyle and other changes. Currently the average American throws out about 4.5 pounds of...
During four seasons of producing Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska, few video shoots stand out more vividly than the one at Takoma Village, a cohousing community in Washington DC, in the winter of 2005. After doing the interviews, our...
Booklist Review of the Day
Cohen, Andy (author).
May 2012. 220p. Holt, hardcover, $25 (9780805095838). 791.450.
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Summer is the season for exploration and discovery, and readers of all ages, interests, and tastes would love to visit the American Writers Museum—if only such a place existed.
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