Well, if you know anything about me, the thing to know is that summer is my favorite season of all. I would be happy with All Summer All Of The Time! And music is one of my favorite ways of feeling it. I’m so excited because this summer I already have tickets to see Kenny […]
Love & Family
A Visit to My Back Porch: Ari Picker of Lost in the Trees
I first heard about the band Lost in the Trees from my daughter Maya. But then I read about them in Garden and Gun. So I knew they must be good. They are a totally interesting mix of singer-songwriter, alt-country and…classical! There are some songs on their album All Alone in an Empty House that […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Hank Shaw, author of Hunt, Gather, Cook
Hank Shaw is in my kitchen today, talking about a lobster obsession and a love for fisheries. Hank is a lifetime angler, forager, and more recently, hunter. In his book Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast (Rodale Books, May 2011), he explores the role of humans as food gatherers and provides DIY tips. Why […]
5 Tips for Mastering an Antique Show
by guest blogger, designer Mark Kintzel I love going to antique shows. You never know what you’re going to find, or whom you’re going to see. (Let’s just say, antiques aren’t the only finds with “patina.”) One year at the Antiques and Collectors Extravaganza in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, a dealer was selling coffins. Ummm…I’ll pass. But […]
A Visit to My Back Porch: Adam Gardner from Guster
I can’t quite remember how I first learned about Guster. But I think it must be because of their song “Amsterdam,” which is one of my all-time favorite songs. As a writer, how can I not love the line “I’m gonna write you a letter, I’m gonna write you a book, I wanna see your […]
Ten Reasons Why I Love Bob Dylan
Photo: (cc) Heinrich Klaffs/Flickr, license from Creative Commons 2.0 I picked up the recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine that celebrates Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday. I was in the airport, on a very long and unexpected airport delay, so I had time to spend. I was a bit miffed because the panel of Dylan experts […]
Cleaning Out: What Was I Thinking?
I don’t know about you, but every once in a while I get in the mood to clean out…REALLY clean out. The kind of clean-out that starts at one end and keeps going till there are bags of trash and stuff to get rid of, piled up high. What made me think of this was […]
Is America a Third World Country?
The other day I was talking to a dear friend of mine who had just returned from a business trip to China. “Coming back to America felt like returning to a Third World country,” he said. I was momentarily stunned, because I’d had the exact same thought when returning from Germany a few months ago. […]
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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