In a world full of "don't"
Full of "shouldn't" and "won't"
It is easy to fear
When that's all that we hear.

But what if one day
When those naysayers say
"It is futile, no less"
You found courage for "Yes"?

As headlines swirl and climates whirl
And Wall Street finds its feet
There's one refrain that doesn't change
"Mommy, what's there to eat?"

Well listen child, I'll tell you what,
That's no small query there.
Come over here, and sit right down,
In fact,...

As headlines swirl, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the nation's food safety laws have an eerie similarity to the federal approach to safeguarding our citizens from exposure to toxic chemicals and toxic financial assets. If our federal aviation system were to adhere to the same loose, deregulated standards that...

Thank you, Michael Jackson...

I'm starting with the Man in the Mirror,
I'm asking him to change his ways,
No message could have been any clearer,
If you want to make the world a better place,
Take a look at yourself
And make that change....

Maggie Fox's poignant Reuters article today, "Americans Struggle to Pay HealthCare Costs," is compelling and speaks to the urgent need to help Americans care for their health (true "health care") with higher standards and increased funding at the FDA and personal measures like diet and nutrition.

The article...

Dear Michelle,

In these uncertain times, I am deeply grateful for the role that you are playing as Mother in Chief and want to express my heartfelt appreciation for the work that you are doing for our nation's 30 million children.

Today, American children suffer from a health crisis never...

A hot new trend among traders is betting on packages of energy and agricultural futures. Kind of like the bankers bet on subprime mortgages, traders recently invented Collateralized Commodity Obligations (or CCO's). They are like their subprime cousins, CDO's (collateralized debt obligations), only their performance is linked to rising commodity...

NOTE: On April 24,2009, the following comment was submitted about this article from a Research Associate at Duke University which employs Dr. Wesley Burks:

"The oral immunotherapy is done with peanut flour from peanuts grown and processed, not synthetically produced in a lab. it is a defatted flour which...

As W galloped out of office and Obama sashayed in, January's headlines were enough to make anyone utter: WTF?!

While we read about Blagojevich's hairbrush and the $1,400 trashcan purchased by Merrill Lynch's CEO, the Dow saw "its worst performance ever" posting its worst January in its 113 year...

As Pfizer swallowed Wyeth and Bank of America started belching up Merrill Lynch, you just might have missed the heartburn-inducing headline of the year: heavy metal has been found in our daily bread.

According to a report in Environmental Health by a former FDA scientist and whistleblower,...

We are a nation of 300 million eaters.

And anyone that eats can attest to the utter confusion that our food supply has become. As headlines swirl about beef recalls large enough to feed every American two hamburgers, baby formula laced with melamine, and controversial additives used to...

Whoa. What just happened? Does the end of 2008 at all resemble what we thought we knew twelve months ago?

In 2008, it seems that the world redefined itself. As the stock market fell, heroes like Michael Phelps and Dara Torres inspired us and new players like Sarah Palin...

Since when did it get so hard to be a mom? Ten years ago, we didn't worry about sending a peanut butter and jelly sandwich into school with our children; we didn't medicate our eight year olds to get them through the school day; and the movie Rain Man was...

Today it is estimated that 50 per cent of Hispanic and African-American children will develop diabetes, that 1 in 90 boys has autism, and that 1 in 4 children has asthma. Pediatrics just reported that from 2002-2005, there was a 103 percent increase in diabetes medication for children, a...

As Henry Paulson's "Mini Me," Neel Kashkari, took the stage yesterday, I was struck by the audacity of greed.

As our country confronts its greatest economic crisis, Paulson -- after accumulating a $700 million equity stake in Goldman Sachs (source: New York Times) and then requesting almost one...

So let me get this straight, Henry Paulson, who, according to Market Watch, has a net worth of at least $500 million, wants a blank check, signed by all of us, the US taxpayers, for one trillion dollars (can't you hear Dr. Evil, pinky-positioned in his mouth, saying that?).

Our economy is having a Wile-E Coyote moment...

We've been racing along, full speed ahead and suddenly find ourselves, like Wile-E Coyote, over the cliff, suspended in mid air, looking down!

And in a desperate attempt to save ourselves, we have whipped out our national credit card and are frantically...

As campaign rhetoric swirls over tax policies, this article is the first in a series called Momonomics, aimed at helping moms understand all of this economic jargon.

As a mother of four, I don't do lipstick, but I understand economic policy, having earned an MBA on a scholarship and...

It is strange to be able to pinpoint the unleashing of such a powerful, cultural force in our society to one precise moment in time. But the day that America's unraveling fabric was exposed was the day that McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate on Friday, August 29th,...

I was raised on capitalism and the Wall Street Journal. In my family, the Reagans had an almost royal status -- to watch them dance, with Nancy in her red dress, gave me the feeling, as a child, that I was watching some magnificent combination of Frank Sinatra and a...