Thanks to reader “foufou” for posting this tasty–and easy–recipe on my picnic post last week.  I can’t wait to try it…and to figure out how to spell tabouli (tabbouli?  tabouleh?).  Anyway, this vegetarian salad is packed with protein courtesy of our grain-y friend bulgur, plus all kinds of fresh herb and lemon goodness.  Enjoy! TABBOULI…

What color wakes you up?  We just published a fun gallery on how color affects emotions and energy, and here are some options for your best wake-up color.  Use these colors on your bedroom walls, bedding, PJs, teddy bears, etc. Yellow projects love, light, warmth, and wealth, enhances communication, learning, mood, and energy level. Green…

Remember when we were in school and we got lists of books we had to have read by September?  Invisible Man, Siddhartha, As I Lay Dying–some years the list was longer than others, some years (oy, Faulkner) were more challenging than others.  But every summer, I read. So here, at the official start of summer,…

Foodie Friday is upon us, and this week’s post is about an early summer joy that is as fleeting as it is delightful.  I speak of the pungent, powerful, twisty, green, and woefully short-lived garlic scape. Yesterday at my town’s farmer’s market, I bought a squiggly handful of the wild, wispy stuff, not knowing what…

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