Archive | November, 2014

Green Holiday Gift Guide

Green Holiday Gift Guide

by the Rodale’s team We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with joy and laughter! And we also wish that your holiday shopping will be just as much fun. To help out, we’ve selected a few green gift ideas for some of the special people in your life… For the mom: A Monogrammed Letter […]

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Our Lingering Selves

Our Lingering Selves

by guest blogger Renee James, humorist and blogger We’re in the midst of “the travel season,” the final six weeks of the year. Although my own holiday travel won’t involve more than a drive out of state, I find myself thinking about this Helen Bevington quote: “I have learned this strange thing, too, about travel: […]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing you and your families health, healing, and happiness. Happy Thanksgiving! —Maria Related Posts:Happy Thanksgiving! From Me and My Fairytale PumpkinGiving Thanks for a New Food Tradition8 Worthwhile Ways to Give Back This Holiday Season

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Make Your Own Bone Broth From Thanksgiving Turkey Bones

Make Your Own Bone Broth From Thanksgiving Turkey Bones

Bone broth is everywhere right now. It officially seems like a “craze” to me. Some crazes are crazy (margarine, for example); others are great (like the running or yoga crazes). What’s funny to me about the bone broth craze is that I’ve been making it forever. I just called it homemade soup broth. In fact, […]

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How a Gas Glut got 100 People Arrested

How a Gas Glut got 100 People Arrested

“Climate Justice-FERC Action Day 1” by Nick Lyell/Flickr, licensed under CC 2.0 by Sam Koplinka-Loehr, community organizer with Clean Air Council “Well, there’s a gas glut right now” is usually not the reason someone ends up in jail. And it definitely isn’t the sexiest reason to end up in jail. Gas glut sounds more like […]

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How to Roast Chestnuts

How to Roast Chestnuts

“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…” We all know that song! If you go to Manhattan from Thanksgiving to Christmas, you will actually smell them roasting on those street carts—not exactly an open fire, but it’s a happy smell and a healthy snack! It’s also a tradition after a feast (not as if you need […]

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Maria's Five Favorites: Things to Be Thankful For

Maria’s Five Favorites: Things to Be Thankful For

Here are five things from Rodale’s that I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving: 1. Meat Thermometer. Because it lets you know when the turkey is done! 2. Aquarius Leggings. Because they’re made from sustainable hemp and organic cotton and let you look stylish on Thanksgiving but still have room to stuff yourself without your pants getting […]

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Ayurveda and Yoga: Balancing the Vata Dosha during the Holiday Season

Ayurveda and Yoga: Balancing the Vata Dosha during the Holiday Season

by guest bloggers Jeff Perlman and Holly Walck   This time of year is cold and busy. The temperatures plummet across most of the country, and the holiday season has us on the run, trying to accomplish even more than usual. It’s the perfect storm for an imbalance of the vata dosha in the body and […]

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