Eat Organic on a Budget—It Can Be Done!
February 22, 2010
Let’s start with full disclosure: I am not by nature a frugal shopper, nor a shopper on a budget. In fact, I’ve been known to make sales people gawk at me when my bill gets tallied (like when I drive an hour to the closest Whole Foods with a cooler in the back of my truck to stock up for months at a time). I am fortunate in that I don’t have to worry about my grocery bill. However, I know that lots of people do, including my mother-in-law, who would be a frugal shopper even if she were a… more
Comments (9)The Lodge at Woodloch Brought Me Back to Life
February 5, 2010
It didn’t really matter that in the past few months I’ve taken over a company, finished a book, and said the long, big good-bye to my mother. It didn’t really matter that it was my birthday and I was giving myself a present. I still felt sharp pangs of guilt as I said good-bye to my little darlings and headed for a spa in the Poconos.
These days any sign of excess is uncool, and it’s hard… more
Comments (6)Choose Life
February 3, 2010
There is something I’ve been thinking about for quite a while but wasn’t ready to blog about until I read, on The New York Times online, about the guy who murdered an abortion doctor and claimed in his defense that he was justified because he opposed abortion.
Over the years I’ve mostly stayed out of the pro-life/pro-choice hysteria and debates. I know from personal experience just how complicated and personal the whole thing is, because 27 years ago I chose life.
I was… more
Comments (24)Perfect Happiness and Other Questions
January 20, 2010
My local paper, the Morning Call, asked me to answer these questions, from a book called Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire, which Rodale published last year. It’s a great book, featuring cultural figures from Jane Goodall to Johnny Cash answering a series of personal questions made popular by the French writer Marcel Proust (their answers appeared in a series in Vanity Fair magazine). It’s lots of fun to answer the… more
Comments (7)It’s Farm Show Time!
January 11, 2010
This week is the 94th Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, “the largest indoor agricultural event in the country,” or so they claim. I am devastated that due to work schedules I probably won’t be able to attend. But that shouldn’t stop you from trying to go—or at the very least, like me, watching it all week long on the PCN Channel. Over the years, I’ve gone many times, and every time, I see and learn something new.
Sure, there are the things some people laugh at—the sheep-to-shawl contest… more
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