A mom trying to balance work and raising two little boys feels like she’s on a hamster wheel.
Let’s Rock Their World! – Guest Post by David Wish
The United States’ largest teacher-led, educational reform movement in music education has been unleashed. David Wish, founder and executive director of Little Kids Rock, talks about the exciting benefits of the “Fifth Stream” of music education in US public schools. Will kids actually get to study at school what they listen to at home?
How I Became a Conflicted Omnivore
Meat became much more than just meat for me that day. It has become a real and living issue about love and humanity and a concern about how the way we extend ourselves into the world becomes, in turn, what we are. We become what we do, and what we do is terrible.
Honolulu Café
I was going to meet a poet for drinks at 5:00 so I ran some errands on the other side of town. I was early, she was late. I wrote this while I was waiting. Later we drank cheap red and made out, leaning on the hood of a ’55 Chevy .
BBQ beauties (Better’n Steak and Hot Dogs!)
My husband says you can barbecue an old boot and it would probably taste good. No doubt about it — the aroma of food sizzling on an outdoor grill is always heady and wonderful. But I’d be willing to bet that 99 percent of us barbecue the same-old-same-old: steak, hamburgers and hot dogs. Fess up! Then step on the wild side.
The Importance of Eating Ernest (the Lamb): Good Food for Thought
Has the current North American diet — often processed, packaged, and high in sugar and preservatives — led to decreased attention spans, the decline of literate and critical thinking, and potentially even the decline of political conversation and rhetoric? The psychological symptoms of malnutrition after all are unresponsiveness, disinterest in one’s surroundings, listlessness, weariness, apathy, irritability and poor memory. If we are what we eat, most of us are in trouble.
S/he: Stuck
As Schmutzie discovered, coming of age in the middle of a gender crisis is less fun than you’d think…
Ooh-lala! Lobster!
Can you believe that there was a time when lobster sandwiches were an embarrassment? Today lobster dished out in any which way is a big treat. Sandra Phinney gives us the lowdown on this delectable crustacean, including their bizarre mating rituals and ooh-lala recipes.
The Power of Paying Attention
I spent years working in an office with no windows nearby. Years under great banks of fluorescent lights with no inkling of whether it was day or night, summer or winter, sunny or stormy. And doing a stressful job. No wonder I came to realize that it was doing me in. The wonder is that I did it for so long. Now I’m lucky enough to work at home surrounded by greenery…
Soul in the Soil: The Most Beautiful Garden in the World – Part 1
Bunjae Artpia — on Jeju Island, 80km off the coast of South Korea, is the epitome of one man’s passionate sacrifice; a Korean pig farmer’s dream blossomed into reality — a garden of more than 2,000 bunjae (bonsai) trees.
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