This just in: French Elle magazine’s April cover features European actresses and models without makeup AND without Photoshopping!  It’s a refreshing departure from the magazine world’s typical embrace of all things perfected, brushed, tinted, and hidden.  And it’s something that American magazines should try as well. This post on Shine says it best: “What might…

How do you live fresh? We’ve put out the call for people to fill out our survey about what they do to lead healthier, more balanced lives. This week’s is from the funny, fabulous, and insightful Therese Borchard, whose Beliefnet blog Beyond Blue follows her spiritual journey to mental health. Fill out the survey yourself! Copy, paste,…

Have you ever had Dancing Deer cookies?  What?  No?!  What are you waiting for?  Tangerine-chocolate cookies have a lovely soft spot in the center of a crunchy treat.  Molasses-clove cookies are chewy every day and twice on Sundays. And the sugar cane-lime cookies.  Can’t talk.  Cookie-dreaming…. This is a company  you can love with more…

Apart from its financial connotation, the dictionary defines “tax” as “a burdensome or excessive demand; a strain.”  So I think it’s perfectly appropriate, now that our W2s and 1099s are safely sent off to Uncle Sam, to think of today, April 15, as “tax-free day.” What a worthy challenge, to embrace a burden-less attitude, a…

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