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We are proud to offer an extensive array of supportive features in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  But as one of our authors, Lori Hope, points out in this powerful guest post, it can be difficult to be a non-breast-cancer survivor in October because you can easily feel like your disease is carried out…

“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer — they think they have, so they …stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in…

On Friday I was lucky enough to attend a dharma talk with beloved Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh organized by Omega Institute. With each of the Beacon Theatre’s 2,800-plus seats full, the evening began with brown-robed monks–men on the right, women on the left–singing beautifully. When Thich Nhat Hanh approached the stage, he seemed small but sure…

My puppy-niece Jane (is she not the cutest?!) is having her “lady surgery” today–at 6 months old, she’s being spayed.  There is no question that this is the right thing to do to protect her from cancer as well as from future puppy generations that my sister would not want to or be able to…

In some ways, today is about a man who guided a team of explorers across the ocean in search of new lands.  But in another way, today is about the idea of exploration, the notion of discovery.  In that spirit, our colleague pulled together a fabulous gallery of inspiring quotes about discovery and exploration, which…

The world is still buzzing with this morning’s news that Barack Obama has won a Nobel Peace Prize. The first reactions, including the President’s, were of surprise. Then, of course, opinions: “he deserves it,” “he doesn’t deserve it,” “this cheapens the prize,” “this is an enlightened decision,” “this is the tolling of the apocalypse,” and so on. In the midst…

It’s strange, but often in the fall, I cook not based on what I want to taste, but what I want to smell.  Granted, the scents I want wafting from my kitchen at this time of year are conveniently in line with the season’s best, like cooked squash and baked apples.  Oh, and cinnamon mixed…

Today NASA deliberately crashed a rocket into the moon to search for water. My moon. Your moon. The poets’ moon. The ancients’ moon. Usually we howl at the moon. Today I feel like howling with the moon, for the moon. I don’t know if she’s hurt, obviously, but this feels like an intensely disrepectful (to say…

My yoga teacher was just talking about how change is what we can count on, and quoted playrwright Bertolt Brecht. I couldn’t find the exact one she used, but this one from him is nice too: “Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”  She reminded us that…

This week the Center for Science in the Public Interest came out with a study of the “Top 10 Riskiest Foods“–meaning the ones that have made people ill the most often. They’re:  – Leafy greens – Eggs – Tuna – Oysters – Potatoes – Cheese – Ice Cream – Tomatoes – Sprouts – Berries The report says, “many…
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