I try to be healthy and good and stay away from sugar. (My grandfather once wrote a book called Sugar and the Criminal Mind!) But with candy-crazy kids and a husband who only enjoys reading books about candy, it’s dang hard. Plus, we seem to live in Candy Central. We are a gumdrop away from […]
Archive | April, 2009
Murder, Mayhem, and Misery…for Pleasure?
I have officially entered the realm of old-fogy-dom, since I am about to complain about what’s on TV. Last week 13 people were murdered in Binghamton, NY, a town I drive through regularly on my way to my in-laws’ house. It seems that every day we hear that children have suffered abuse, and families have […]
Top 10 Tips for Getting Along with Family During Holidays
This week brings Passover and Easter, so a lot of folks are going to get together with family, whether they like it or not. I’m not a therapist, but as a member of a functional family business and a wife about to host her 9 in-laws for the weekend, for about the 12th time, I […]
April Showers Bring May Flowers…and Floods?
It’s pouring right now in Pennsylvania. It’s the kind of rain that makes the worms come out and try to swim across the driveway. (What’s up with that?) It’s the kind of rain that if I was in New York City today I would absolutely not be able to get a taxi, and I would […]
The Top 10 Most Important Things for Healthy Babies
My friend Danielle is just about to have her second child. The other day she asked me for my advice on what baby products to use, and not to use, because it seems like every year something changes and there are new recommendations. Since my youngest will turn 3 this summer, it’s all still fresh […]
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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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