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This morning I popped a free-range chicken from the food co-op into a 350-degree oven thinking I’d serve it to my kids tonight for dinner. I just salted it, threw a clean apple inside it to keep it moist, and sprinkled chopped carrots around the bottom of its iron fry pan. When the bird was…

If you are orally fixated or someone who likes to fidget and chew at your desk, you are in luck! I have discovered the pleasures of chewing real licorice sticks. Sweet, hard, good for the teeth and filled with subtle medicinal properties, the licorice sticks of which I speak are the actual dried roots of…

Andrew Sullivan has a good blog post about how gay men might lift masculinity out of its macho template. He quotes The Agonist’s managing editor Ian Welsh who separates male behavior into the “good” and the “toxic.” Are the men in your life in balance? How do you help them work on it?

Thanks to Mackenzie Sala’s wedding blog “Something Old, Something New” for alerting us to the existence of these exceedingly sweet wedding cake toppers made by artist Ann Wood. Even if you’re not getting married, you’ll find “Something Old, Something New” a fun, inspiring read.

The Association for Global New Thought has a wonderful website that alerts those with a multi-faith (all-one) mindset to worthy world peace initiatives. Have a look. Click on “Leaders” to read about the group’s co-founder Michael Bernard Beckwith, director of the Agape International Spiritual Center (he’s also one of the experts in “The Secret” book…

Annie Berthold-Bond, the “Green Heloise,” includes great tips for keeping your closets moth free in her most recent newsletter (which you can sign up for here). Here’s how to make your own non-toxic, moth repelling sachets: INGREDIENTS 2 ounces each of dried rosemary and mint1 ounce each of dried thyme and ginseng8 ounces of whole…

There’s a movement afoot to get the Bible taught as literature in more grade schools and high schools. Sounds like an idea that will really inflame a lot of people, but this study by William Jeynes (a non-resident scholar at Baylor University and a professor at California State University in Long Beach) indicates that Bible…

A new healthy snack bar called “Soy Joy” is trying to humorously capitalize upon the idea that anything affiliated with yoga might sell by calling itself “yoga for your mouth.” Soy Joy’s website additionally features an endorsement from a fit-looking nutritionist, and displays a user-friendly vlog by someone named Emy whose on-camera consumption of a…

I was reading Valerie Reiss’s interview with spiritual teacher and medical intuitive Caroline Myss this morning, and I got caught up in what Myss says is today’s most common source of spiritual discontent. She said of her students: People say things to me like, “I know I was born to do something, but what is…

I flew down to South Carolina over the weekend to help care for my 93-year-old dad. He’s had two terrible falls in recent weeks, seriously bruising the whole left side of his body, especially the upper arm and elbow. Thankfully, dad hasn’t broken any bones yet (despite his newly-diagnosed osteoporosis). He was also told a…
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