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In Praise of the Healthy Kitchen

Cooking is a sacred art to me. It’s an act of love. It’s a gratitude and awareness practice, that requires thoughtfulness and care in...

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All In A Day’s Hike

A pair of well-worn hiking boots sit on a rock somewhere on a trail on a sunny summer’s day. When I went down, I went down hard, the left...

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Emotional Balancing Act and Other Musings on What’s Positive and What’s Not

I am not certain if “making the world a better place” is something that we are taught or if it’s something that rises up from within us....

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Nasty, Bad, Stupid Flu!

There we were, going along our merry little way, in a day-to-day that was feeling pretty good, pretty optimistic. And then, there it...

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Kitchen Prayers

A couple of days ago I wrote about “A Place At The Table,” a documentary film now in theaters and also on Amazon.com. This is something...

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A Seat At The Table

I saw a film this weekend that was a real eye-opener—“A Place At the Table” is a documentary that sheds a light on hunger in America, its...

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Do People Know How to Eat Anymore?

Cook or Be Cooked Caution, Proceed With Care: Food Rant Seems like food is always in the news these days. Food corporations have huge...