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Now that it's December, I'm forced to accept that summer is, in fact, over. But wasn't it just yesterday that I had the windows wide open and the fan blowing? I guess not. Not to mention, I seem to recall–rather vividly–solemnly vowing in the midst of a heatwave that, not only would I not complain [...]

It's that time of year again! Time to think about your spring cleaning! Yes, I know–I just posted about cleaning your house with natural products, but I think you know where I'm going with this and you're right–your home isn't the only thing that benefits from a thorough spring cleaning. So can your body! After [...]

House cleaning not your favorite thing? I don't mind it, truthfully. But I will say this: if I'm going to put the energy into cleaning my house, I do actually want it to be clean. I mean, how clean is your house if your cleaning products are toxic? My first apartment out of college had the [...]

This isn't a complaint, but it's well past Epiphany and I've been “stuck” in Vermont since Dec. 23. What's that thing about our best laid plans? My plan was to come home for Christmas and maybe stay for New Year's… And yet, here I am, blogging from my mother's kitchen table. In Vermont. In what [...]

My mother hates math and will swear up and down that she's a dunce when it comes to numbers. My father will then roll his eyes and tell you all you have to do is add a dollar sign and a decimal point and her math I.Q. sky-rockets into the genius range. I don't know [...]

I talk a lot about practicing gratitude. I try to keep an actual gratitude journal, but—thankfully—sometimes I'm too busy to get to it every day. When I do have (read: make) the time to write down my blessings, I realize how much I have to be grateful for. I'm grateful for the Poetic License that [...]

Whoo hoo! My e-book, Conscious Shopping: Making Decisions About What You Eat & How You Buy It," is done!. I'm so excited and it seems like a serendipitous event, since there's all this attention around real food vs. junk food this week. All week, friends and family have been forwarding me links to Mark Bittman's [...]

I came across this William James quote a while ago. I don't mean to sound trite or cliché in saying that it changed my life, but the truth is that it did. I have it in a little frame in my office and whenever I start feeling discouraged or stuck or uninspired, I look at [...]

Now that I've had a little time to sulk, laugh, look on the bright side and cry, I can breathe. If I seem to be riding the rainbow of human emotion, it's because this adult onset egg allergy business is still very new for me. My life—quite literally—changed overnight. I can pinpoint the place and [...]

Just when I thought I had it all figured out… I've been so all about la vida locavore—loving summer, hitting the farmer's markets and mom-and-pop farm stands that use the honor system. Not only do I leap at the chance to promote good karma, but Saturday morning I picked up bag of potatoes for a [...]