Love & Family

New Year's: 5 Tips for Effective Resolutions

New Year’s: 5 Tips for Effective Resolutions

The last place you will find me on New Year’s Eve is at a party drinking champagne or watching fireworks (although one year I did watch the fireworks on the beach in Hawaii, and it was kind of fun). For a “woman of action” such as myself, New Year’s Eve and Day are the most […]

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DIY: An Easy Holiday Hostess Gift

DIY: An Easy Holiday Hostess Gift

By guest blogger designer Mark Kintzel I think the great variety of little trees and topiaries available at local florists and nurseries make perfect holiday gifts.  However, often, the containers they come in aren’t that attractive, so I’m going to show you how to dress them up. Here’s what you need: A nursery-potted plant (I […]

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Death and the Holidays

Death and the Holidays

This post is dedicated to Warren and Lisa. Sunday, December 12, 2010, would have been my brother David’s 58th birthday. He died suddenly of AIDS two days before Christmas (suddenly—he was diagnosed and died three days later), and this is the 25th anniversary of his death. Last year, on the 19th of December, my mother […]

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A Visit to My Kitchen: Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau from The Kathleen Show

A Visit to My Kitchen: Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau from The Kathleen Show

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau is in my kitchen today, talking about her warm and gooey food love, a massive media collection of great books and good music, and the current event she’s following most closely. Kathleen is a mom, filmmaker, and radio show host. She left a 10-year career as a drug sales representative to pursue film. […]

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Spread Joy, Not Trash: Greener Holiday Wrapping Options

Spread Joy, Not Trash: Greener Holiday Wrapping Options

By guest blogger Anna Hackman. Anna is a sustainability consultant, helping businesses to green their profits, and holds a LEED (Leadership in Environmental Design) AP certification.  She is also the editor of Green Talk, an eclectic green-living website with topics including green living, green building, the 3Rs, green business, and organic gardening.  She has visited the Rodale Farm and […]

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How to Launch a Website in 5 Easy Steps

How to Launch a Website in 5 Easy Steps

by guest blogger Amanda Junker, founding editor of Fitbie.com and Senior Editor with the Creative Services group at Rodale Inc. You may have heard that there’s a new place to get healthy on the Web, and Rodale is the company behind it. Fitbie is a diet and fitness destination that features useful, inspirational, and actionable […]

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The Joy of Family Gardening

The Joy of Family Gardening

This appears in the December/January edition of Organic Gardening magazine. For great gardening, cooking, and living tips, pick the issue up today! I learned about flowers from my mother. Her goal was to get the flowers planted before the Indy 500 was over, in late May, and up until her last few years she was […]

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Theme Song for an Organic Food Revolution

Theme Song for an Organic Food Revolution

The other night I saw Bob Dylan in concert. He is amazing. Not just because he’s old and still rocking, but also because his repertoire of songs spans generations of change and a whole lifetime of emotions. I thought about how his song Blowing in the Wind became the theme song to the Vietnam War […]

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