Tag Archives | Books & Movies

How Romance Novels Empower Women

How Romance Novels
Empower Women

by guest blogger Maya Rodale. Romance novels, often dismissed as antifeminist, were actually once seen as having revolutionary power deserving of vigorous government response.

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Why The Artist is The Perfect Movie For These Times

Why The Artist is The Perfect
Movie For These Times

The Artist didn’t win all those awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture, because it was a silent movie made 80 some years after silent movies were “over.” It won because it showed us – with a delicious and simple story – that through the turbulent changes of technology, the basic human needs are the same.

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On the Future of Food

On the Future of Food

The older I get, and the more I believe in the power of nature and the universe, the more magic happens (fueled significantly by Hard Work). Case in point: a little book we just published called The Prince’s Speech—On the Future of Food.

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The Prince's Speech: A Love Poem to the Future

The Prince’s Speech:
A Love Poem to the Future

by guest blogger Laurie David. They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but when I heard Prince Charles’s speech about the future of food, I felt the same kind of jolt I felt the first time I saw Al Gore’s slide show on global warming.

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Unbinding the Heart

Unbinding the Heart

by guest blogger Agapi Stassinopoulos. There are no seven or eight simple steps to unbind our hearts, but there is one choice that we all have, and this is our golden opportunity in every moment of every day, whatever small or big challenges it brings: Do I shut down or do I choose to open up one more time, even deeper?

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Vitamin D in a Book: Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country

Vitamin D in a Book:
Bill Bryson’s In a Sunburned Country

I have read thousands of books in my life and I have never laughed so hard, so often, and so deeply (yes, that was the sound of my lungs squeegeeing). I actually had a woman on a plane turn to me and ask me, “What on earth are you reading?”

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Dangerous Books for Girls

Dangerous Books for Girls

by guest blogger Maya Rodale. Romance novels inspire and empower women to live and love to a higher standard. And because that’s a threat to the status quo, we’re taught to ridicule those who embrace that literature. But I say, no more!

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This Holiday, Give Yourself the Gift of Imperfection

This Holiday, Give Yourself
the Gift of Imperfection

I finally understand why the search for perfection gets in the way of really enjoying life.

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