It’s Foodie Friday, and with the weather all crisp and cool, my mind is my favorite daily drink–tea.  Not the leaves themselves, though, but the vessel in which we boil the water to make this healing, warming beverage.  What is the best balance of safety (ie no-boiling-water-in-leach-y-plastics, please!), beauty (tea is a pretty drink, after…

We try to keep it positive here on the FL, so pardon while I take a whine break–there’s a little man or three dancing around my sinus cavities, throwing pepper, spraying water, and generally wreaking Gremlin-like havoc. It’s unclear to me why this September ragweed allergy slam is a surprise anymore, but every year it’s shocking…

Did you see the article in yesterday’s New York Times about the clean water crisis in Charleston, West Virginia and around the country?  Here are some of the alarming take-aways from this exhaustively-reported piece: “Most of today’s water pollution has no scent or taste, many people who consume dangerous chemicals do not realize it, even…

Our blog sister Diana Butler Bass on Progressive Revival had this to say about last night’s health care speech by President Obama: “Tonight was about the moral “we.”  President Obama delivered a hope-filled speech that called us to stop being part of a camp–and instead see our “camp” as the wider American family.  Those of…

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