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My farmer’s market has an egg stand this year, which makes me extremely happy.  You can’t beat eggs that you know were laid days earlier by birds that live happy lives on pastoral fields, nudging grass and grubs and other pure treats from the earth.  Those are eggs as nature intended. I am generally a…

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” — Michael Jackson Rest in peace, M.J. And thank you for being the soundtrack to my childhood. You were loved every step of the way.

Talk about bringing some some simple, organic beauty into your home–check out this gorgeous and clever embroidered headboard, originally posted on Design*Sponge. There are instructions for doing it yourself here.     [Image via: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/06/diy-idea-embroidered-headboard.html]

I sat with a friend last night in the park (a friend who happens to be a guy I dated a gazilion years ago), and we talked about whether relationships of the romantic variety are or should be seen as necessary parts of a happy life or mere “icing” of an evolved, complete self. He…

Reports are spreading (the NY Daily News and ABC News so far) that “Charlie’s Angels” ’70s heartthrob Farrah Fawcett’s long struggle with cancer might be coming to an end.  News reports say that friends and family are gathering at her bedside, and that she’s been given the last rites by a Catholic priest. It’s always…

In the spirit of Valerie’s awesome Songs About Rain playlist, I thought it would be fun to compile a list of songs about morning.  Here are 5 to get us started–please add to this list! 1.  Brand New Day–Sting 2.  Morning Has Broken–Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam 3.  Good Morning Starshine–Oliver 4.  Angel of the Morning–Juice Newton…

Recently an article in New York magazine showed a room in a delicious shade of pink identified as “Baker-Millier pink.” A little Googling showed that this color–a sort of Pepto hue approximately the shade of the box at left–is also known as “drunk tank pink” and is often used in prisons to calm angry captives. Some studies have…

A new study is out touting the health benefits of a Mediterranean diet.  This will come as no shock to those of you who have already seen our fabulous gallery, “The Health Secrets of the Mediterranean Diet,” but what’s interesting to me is that the new study (click here to learn more about it on…

Exciting news from the processed food world!  Log Cabin Syrup, the breakfast table staple since 1887, has announced it’s replacing the high-fructose corn syrup in its products with natural, “real” sugar. Log Cabin is not alone–Pepsi (in its Pepsi Throwback product) and Snapple have both said goodbye to the HFCS this year.  To review, what’s…

I remember reading this in a Garfield comic strip when I was a kid and deeply relating. And now you can actually buy it in mug form.
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