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Many of you shared your delectable oatmeal mix-in combinations in my 6 Health Reasons to Eat Oatmeal post.  I thought I’d share the love by posting some of your yummiest ways to warm up a cold morning.  Enjoy! “I add 2 tablespoons of raisins to the water when I cook my oatmeal. Then sprinkle with…

Hi folks. So I’m about ready to rip my hair out for various reasons this rainy gray Tuesday, but, yay, made a fun quiz today! Quiz: Who Said It? Oprah Winfrey or the Dalai Lama? Uncanny how they actually sound really similar sometimes! Enjoy.   Like what you see? Click here to subscribe and get…

This weekend, Rob and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary with a quasi-spontaneous trip to Vermont to catch the end of leaf-peeping season.  It was an utterly beautiful weekend, the kind where you order homemade yellow cake with chocolate frosting after lunch at the town diner just because it looks delicious…and it is! We had…

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

In one of my yoga classes there’s a woman who makes, shall we say, pleasure noises with each posture. No, not little mms or the usual exhales. We’re talking “I’ll have what she’s having” noises. Deep moans, low sighs, ecstatic aaahhhs. It’s a little amusing, but most mornings it’s really annoying–I’m so glad for her yummy experience,…

Friday was my 10th wedding anniversary.  So many memories, such a journey, so much more, we pray, to come.  To celebrate, I want to share some words from a StoryPeople print my mom gave us in our first year of marriage:  “As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lover’s vow. But we…

About five years ago a psychic friend of a friend told me she was allowing her 16-year-old daughter do pretty much whatever she wanted because, “She’s only got till 2012.” I was shocked by her cold certainty, not to mention nihilistic permissiveness. She didn’t sound sad about it, just matter-of-fact: The world will end in 2012.…

Foodie Friday is upon us again!  Last week, I shared tips for how to make your own pumpkin puree.  This week, I’ve got a creamy, warming, makes-the-kitchen-smell-amazing way to use your puree–the definition of feel-good comfort food:  cranberry-studded pumpkin risotto.  I’m a sucker for “sweet and savory” together, and this dish captures it in a…

“It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.” – James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA    Need more morning inspiration?  Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!

Beverly Bunn, a dentist who attended the Angel Valley sweat lodge retreat in which three people  died and multiple others were hospitalized, is speaking out about her ordeal.  The video below, from CNN, is wrenching as Bunn describes the surreal scene, including her attempts to administer CPR to those who were in trouble…and being prevented…
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