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We saw “Superman Returns” last weekend and enjoyed it thoroughly, though I found myself shifting in my chair slightly and even chortling when the director heaped on the Christian allegory way too heavily. I learned in eighth grade literature class that authors are supposed to hint at their messages, and make readers do the interpreting.…

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! Here’s a nice prayer for our country taken from the Jewish “Weekday, Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book,” used in this collection of patriotic quotes and prayers. Heavenly father, we invoke thy blessings upon the President of the United States of America and upon all the leaders of our country. Protect…

CM reader Stacey-Robin objected slightly to what I said last week about the Barbara Walters/Star Jones Reynolds bruhaha, but I happened to notice, when I went to her homepage, that she’s a talented artist with lovely artwork up on her site.

It’s good that former president Clinton has been leading a campaign against soft drink machines in schools. Here’s another approach to tackling our nation’s youth obesity problem, one that I suspect will be considerably less successful.

Everyone should have a pal like my nutritionally-hip friend Myra. She’s the one who introduced me to the whole grain farrow. Yesterday, she gave me a bag of nutritional yeast flakes (“the full complement of B vitamins,” Myra says, great in smoothies and on popcorn). Myra told me about krill oil, and says it is…

I recently picked up at the health food store a copy of a 50-page periodical called “Green Teacher: Education for Planet Earth,” and I’ve decided that since it’s summer and we’re all capable of dreaming about how the next school year might be, I’ll donate a GT subscription to our Montessori school in hopes of…

“All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. Confucius, Zoroaster, Socrates, Mahomet, not to mention authorities really sacred, have agreed in this.” —John Adams, “Thoughts on Government,” 1776. Jesus is probably among the “really sacred” he doesn’t…

I live near a Botanical Garden that contains beautifully landscaped acres of Shakespearean herbs, a rolling creek, a lily pond, and a Japanese meditation area with a small temple. Turtles, koi, and ducks swim in the pond. If I still jogged, I could jog to these gardens in four minutes. At a walking pace, it…

I don’t know if you’re actually following this, but it is interesting to note that outgoing “The View” co-host Star Jones Reynolds and incoming co-host Rosie O’Donnell were born just three days apart in March of 1962. I get this from Beliefnet.com astrology writer Shelley Ackerman. O’Donnell was born on March 21, and Reynolds was…

The May-June issue of “Mothering” has a good article on baby-parent attachment and the pernicious influence of those baby car seats thought to be nifty since you can tote your child around everywhere in them, from car to store to home and back, without touching or interacting very much. Use a sling when you’re moving…
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