Healthy living is essential to living a full, happy life. But what exactly does it mean? Many people think of it in terms of right diet and enough exercise. But even that is vague and a source of great controversy. Is eating meat essential to health, or is it a sure path to cancer and [...]
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Every family has its rules. Some families do a better job of articulating and enforcing them than others, but every family has both implicit and explicit guidelines. Since my son is not yet four years old, our family rules mostly consist of how to continue on our path of living more simply and sustainably in [...]
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As this post debuts on this blog, it is Black Friday. The day that has become–in the U.S.A.–a traditional major shopping day. A day to get deeper in debt. A day to fight crowds and long lines. A day to be inundated by all the chemical smells of new plastics and synthetic fabrics in the [...]
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Are you into “natural parenting“? Do you parent according to the principles of “attachment parenting”? Regardless of your label of choice, deciding to embark on a non-mainstream parenting lifestyle means making yourself vulnerable to all of its one hundred and one challenges. When you choose to use cloth diapers, co-workers will call you “strange.” When [...]
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