How has America become duped into believing that plain white sugar, bleached white flour, unpronounceable additives, and petroleum-dervied dyes are “food”?
The Hearth in Ashland, Oregon: Real People Telling Real Stories
When Selene Aitken was ten years old living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, her teacher told the class to get out a ruler and a pen. Page by page she directed the children to cross out every reference to the just ousted rulers, General Juan Perón and his wife Eva. Selene had no idea what had happened but her heart broke…
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No Shot No School, Why Do Educated Parents Delay Vaccines?
On our way back from Inverness in the fall of 2011, we passed a huge banner hanging from a public school in a small town near San Rafael: NO SHOT NO SCHOOL. At that time California had a new requirement that all students entering 7th through 12th grade get the TDaP vaccine in order to attend public school. According to…
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Back in Town, Leaving Again
I don’t know if my restlessness is a character flaw or a positive trait but we’re heading out of town this afternoon, even though my toddler and I just returned from a two-week work trip in Iceland and Norway. It seems like a good time to share some travel wisdom. Travel wisdom 101. Here are 7 things I know: 1….
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22 Reasons Why I Love Nursing My 22-Month-Old
#18. Sometimes even just the promise of “Sides” (which is what Leone calls nummies) is enough to quell a tantrum or fix a frustration.
Seven Things You Probably Don’t Know About Ashland, Oregon
1) People in Ashland swallow their E’s or pronounce them as I’s, especially in the middle of a word. “My name’s Ginny,” I thought my daughter’s friend’s mom said, and that’s what I called her. When the class list came out I realized her name was actually Jenny. “I’m ’Mree” a man told me. I had to ask him his…
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