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Sorry about the slim posts yesterday. My DSL high-speed Internet connection blew down in Sunday’s storm. It’s probably not good that our telephone cables run down a wire fence between two Brooklyn backyards. Strange how connections that seem solid one moment can completely fall apart in the next. I’m sitting here in the kitchen now,…

Incredible coverage here outlining five ways to celebrate “Earth Week.” If you’ve been concerned about the environment but perplexed about what you can do to restore it, this marvelous package of articles will help.

Here’s an online prayer circle where you can post your thoughts and prayers about the Virginia Tech tragedy.

Words cannot express the heartache we all feel as we watch news reports of student deaths on the campus of Virginia Tech today. Here are some prayers I’ve found that seem appropriate. Blessed are you, Source of LifeWho helps us to bring Light where there is darkness, Healing where there is brokenness, and Peace to…

When it’s midnight and you’re in your jammies, curling up with the NYTimes mag’s story on “The Greening of Geopolitics,” you really hate to hear your husband shout “The basement is flooding!” But so he did. These are soggy times. New York City got hammered with eight inches of rain yesterday. And while it’s hard…

Oh God, I was already a cell phone-phobe. Now this. Some experts are wondering if cell phone signals are confusing the honey bees’ inner directives that help them find their way back to their hives–and killing them in droves.

Happy birthday to me April 17th. And happy birthday to Jesus, who as you must know, was not born on December 25th. Biblical scholars and historians of religion have always suspected that Christ might have been born in the Spring, but in 1999, Rutgers University press published a book by astronomer Michael Molnar, in which…

By Valerie Reiss, filling in for Amy. Oddly enough, this week Deirdre Imus, wife to embattled shock jock Don Imus, came out with a book, “Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning”, about how to clean you home with fewer toxins. Turns out, she’s also a vegan, and has even turned curmudgeon cum racist Don…

By Valerie Reiss, filling in for Amy. I just logged on to Amazon and saw a little box that said “Valerie’s Plog: 66 Posts.” Of course my first question was, “What’s a plog?” So I clicked. Apparently, a plog is this: “Your Plog is a personalized web log that appears on your customer home page.…

By Valerie Reiss, filling in for Amy. The wonderful author Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday at age 84. Though I’ve buried many of the details of his amazing books deep into my adolescent psyche where they first bloomed (or rather, exploded), I know his snarky, brilliant, dark-yet-bright, absurd-yet-earnest, searing satires seriously shaped me–and zillions of others.…
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