For a couple of years now, I've been thinking about how to ground people in community through hard times (because I always knew hard times were coming.) One of the ideas I have is to have weekly community pot lucks.
Karin Badt | Posted 10.30.2008 | Living
Only in India do people comment on the experience of getting there ("this was fresher," said Vivek) rather than the destination itself.
Alex Pattakos | Posted 10.22.2008 | Living
We've all heard the saying, "What goes around, comes around." Many of us would probably even add that this simple-sounding saying actually and accura...
Michael Sigman | Posted 10.14.2008 | Living
John McCain and Sarah Palin have sunk to a new low. So where's John Lennon's instant karma when we need it most?
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
On a night much like the one Nicole and Ronald might have found themselves, Karel rants about how OJ was finally served and Bush and Cheney should be next.
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 09.06.2008 | Living
Give 'til it hurts. Groan. Are you tired of being guilted into giving? Better load up on overpriced wrapping paper and spend Saturday working th...
Leslie Goldman | Posted 08.29.2008 | Chicago
I got out, loaded up with shirts and dresses, and confronted what was possibly the deadest dead tire ever. My heart sank. But then the kindheartedness that defines the Midwest started peeking out from every corner and I was saved by my city.
Kay Goldstein | Posted 08.17.2008 | Living
For those of us attempting to live in the world in a more conscious way, there can never be enough reminders, for we humans are such forgetful creatures.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living
I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...
Peter Clothier | Posted 01.23.2008 | Living
Greed is not good. Call it karma. Good old American greed -- the greed that the "Reagan Revolution" thrived on -- is coming back at us, and it's not good.
Mario Ruiz | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
Why is it easy for pundits and politicians to talk in such lofty terms about freedom when the pain and suffering that Iraqis have endured is anything but abstract?
Stacey Lawson | Posted 01.14.2008 | Living
In one of my earlier posts, I wrote about my initial encounter with a revered Indian Swami who offered to teach me the yogic secrets of conscious crea...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.15.2007 | Living
To claim that genes are the controllers of everything, which amounts to meta-materialism, is willy-nilly, crude reasoning.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
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After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
Last night, CNN's Campbell Brown criticized President-elect...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
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Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Susan Madrak | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living