“You virtually guarantee a charmed life when you give yourself as fully to doing the dishes, and tending to the other miscellanea of living, as to some grand adventure. You can count on the dishes. They’ll be there alongside the grand adventures, and if no adventure is immediately forthcoming, the dishes won’t let you down.…

Here’s a fairly universal human foible that I’ve observed:  the more stressed out we are, the more poorly we eat.  We think, “I don’t have time to shop, cook, and clean up…it’s easier to just pick something up on the way home, or even skip a meal.”  If you recognize yourself in this logic, I…

Whenever a tragedy like the apparent loss of Air France Flight 447 strikes, we feel so helpless.  The suddenness of loss.  The anguish of worry.  The glimmers of hope.  All of these emotions flutter around inside us, and we yearn for connection, for answers. We can’t have answers, at least not yet.  But we can…

A while back, Holly created a wonderful gallery we’ve posted about, The 15 Hidden Health Secrets of Lemons. It was such a huge hit that the folks at My9, a local NYC-based station, wanted to included it in their Power of Faith series. So, with Holly not living in NYC, Valerie (me) went on camera…

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