I can relate to Holly Williams, though she is completely in a league of her own. She’s the third generation of a famous family (Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr.), making a name for herself both in the family business (music) and outside of it (fashion!). I love her album Here with Me—it’s the perfect […]
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Music I Love Now: My Current Top 10
There is not a radio station that plays all the music I love. I dream of having my own radio station one day, so I can share the eclectic selection of music I love with others—I’m sure there are more of us who defy categorization, who live beyond the borders of “adult contemporary,” “modern country,” […]
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 […]
Top 5 Greatest Mysteries of Housework, Plus Top 5 Records to Clean By
You may disapprove, but I take a big deep breath of relief the minute my husband gets in the car with the kids to go to church on Sundays. Finally, I can assess the week’s damage, and gather my forces to bring order to the house. If, God forbid, he misses church for a week […]
Fuzz Is My New Buzz
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older (with the granny glasses to prove it), but I’m starting to tire of the whole “buzz”-chasing world. Now, it’s all about fuzz for me. What’s fuzz? It’s the happy feeling and comfort of a warm, soft cashmere blanket, or a place that just delivers the goods over and over […]
Why I Love Country Music
I am a latecomer to the country music scene. I grew up on progressive radio and worked my way through all the alternative and pop scenes—always keeping an edge and never going straight into the mainstream. I was milk-fed on Jackson Browne (and he will always feel like home to me). But I bought the […]
Cleaning Screens
The other day I was sitting around at home and I noticed that my window screens looked really dirty and dusty. I suddenly remembered being a kid, and my mom making me clean the screens. She would always pick a warm sunny day in spring and I’d get a bucket of warm sudsy water and […]
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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