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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…

These cool fall mornings make me want to snuggle a few extra minutes in my soft, warm sheets.  But that blissfully relaxing feeling is never farther away than when one is shopping for those sheets.  The choices are endless, and often they come down to this question:  what the heck is a thread count? Here’s…

Love these! Found on the This is Love Forever blog. They were made and shot by artist Jonna Pohjalainen.    

We’re sad today over the death at age 72 of Mary Travers, the soaring female voice of the 1960s’ folk supergroup Peter, Paul and Mary.  Her wide smile and happily crinkled eyes were as distinctive as her sonorous voice, and her battle with leukemia for several years did not silence her song or her passion…

I will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,  to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk…

One night years ago, I was driving home on a quiet, dark road. I was bearing right, a small cement island to my left. Suddenly, twin headlights blazed straight at me. If we were cartoon cars we’d be about to kiss. “Wow, it’s going to hit me,” I thought in slo-mo. It was. No time, no space…

Last night was the premiere of the eighth season of “The Biggest Loser,” NBC’s weight loss show that inspires some and chagrins others (including our sister blogger Janice Taylor).  Though this season is packed with compelling stories and ever-larger contestants, there was one moment that stood out for me. It was when Jillian Michaels, the…

It’s become my husband Rob’s annual tradition to get up early one morning when we’re out on Cape Cod in late summer, get on his bike, and pedal to the Atlantic to watch the sun rise.  The photos he captured this year are particularly breathtaking.  The sun’s rays looked positively unfurled, spiky and shiny and…

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…

“Gorgeous and strong” is how his “Dirty Dancing” co-star Jennifer Grey described Patrick Swayze, who died yesterday after an almost 2-year battle with pancreatic cancer. In his memory, I want to share this quote that he said to Barbara Walters in January, when she asked him about his decision to take on a new television…
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