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What makes you choose one particular brand of cosmetics over another?  Price?  Scent?  Ability to soften hair and clear skin?  Similarity to what your mother used?  There are so many reasons–and a growing one is, “Will not kill me.” It’s a fine line between feeling paranoid that products are out to get you and getting…

Giving props to the NYT Magazine’s green issue from yesterday. It’s full of good stuff about the human psychology/brain wiring barriers to becoming greener. A really good read, and not just because I love the Momix-sculpted (Spencer Tunick-inspired) cover. The main story that got me was “Natural Happiness: The self-centered case for environmentalism.” Yale prof…

I didn’t get down to watch the Boston Marathon today, as I have in past years when friends have run or I was just hungry for a little vicarious “wow, that’s amazing.”  But there’s something electric about the day, even if you’re just watching updates online or remembering in passing, “hey, it’s Marathon Monday!” To…

“With the wind beneath your wings, do you need to flap?”  I love finding wisdom-tidbits in random places, and the makers of natural products from iced tea to hair care seem to especially love tucking such snippets into the otherwise boring text on the outside of their containers.  The quote above came from my “Sunset…

Ok, this just made me smile. Here’s a healthy recipe for Foodie Friday I came across on the Tillmook cheese company’s Facebook profile. Lots of fun, and you could make your bunny look less concerned (“Am I food?”). Ingredients:Olives, slicedCarrot, cut into thin sticksCelery, cut into thin sticks and trianglesRed Pepper, cut into triangles and short…

We all have them. Plans for the future and fantasies for how we’d like them to work out. Some are practical, some outlandish, most a combo–I recently started calling these “plantasies.” I’ve been plantasizing a lot this very cold and gray spring. About moving somewhere gorgeous (i.e., with trees and swimmable bodies of water nearby).…

It’s a beautiful sunshine-y day, so let’s celebrate Foodie Friday with a closer look at the first spring vegetable to come up in the garden – lettuce!  Lettuce is an extremely healthful food. It is almost 90 percent water, so it hydrates your body as it nourishes.  Darker lettuces contain folate, beta carotene, vitamin C,…

My friend Dave just posted this to Facebook–he’s the boy in the striped shirt, all growed up now. I thought Big Bird might be a nice way to start the day. And I love love the album title–it actually makes me think. Am I glad I’m me? Well, yeah. In a larger version you can…

This is a heads-up to read a really interesting article on Time.com about the growing field of yoga therapy–methods that use physical asanas and breathwork for deep healing. It’s by one of Beliefnet’s other editors, Alana B. Elias Kornfeld. Have you ever done yoga in therapy or used yoga as therapy? I have–on purpose with…

This morning on my way to work I listened to a wonderful 18-minute podcast about breasts, miracles, and kindness. Part of the Moth’s story-telling series (an organization that gathers people to share spoken-word stories around the country), “A Flash of Hope” by David Ellis Dickerson is a hilarious and moving story about a former fundamentalist Christian who…
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