As our thoughts turn to next week’s Mother’s Day, moms might like to study the very useful website of The Motherhood Project, a group that’s advancing things close to every mother’s heart: connectedness, stewardship, non-commercialism, and workplace flexibility. The group’s website says: “In our view, society’s dismal failure to value mothers and mothers’ work is…

“The dandelion is the strength and cunning and power of the lion whose name it carries, a brilliant flash of yellow in a solid sea of green, and the lightness of a wish on the wind…a gossamer moon waiting for you to come and make your wishes known, to carry them away on wings. It…

My 45-year-old brother can’t seem to stop smoking, even though he’s been diagnosed with the earliest stages of emphysema, a truly dreadful ailment that will eventually leave him constantly breathless if he doesn’t quit lighting up. I’d hate to see my brother tied by the nose to an oxygen tank. But I don’t want to…

If you haven’t tried the terrific exercise method known as Pilates, click here to find centers all over the country celebrating National Pilates Day this May 5th. Many classes are free. Click here to learn more about the yoga-tinged technique that will tone your abs like virtually no other. And here’s an interesting list of…

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