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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Perfection—if defined as anything other than being perfectly me—is not a state of being to which I aspire. I have enough to think about without having to conform to some ideal of perfection, which I'm quite certain would not allow for the dishes in my sink or the ripped out knees in my favorite pair [...]

Second Saturday dinners here in the Humble Neighborhood went on hiatus during the cold winter months, but now that the days are warm, sunny and getting longer, I'm thinking about bringing them back. Just for the summer–June through September. Any takers? New to the Humble Neighborhood? Here's the deal: I cook. You come and eat–and [...]

I have to quit toast. Well, wheat really. I decided to finally face facts: I’m allergic to wheat—or at least noticeably sensitive—and so I’ve cut it out of my diet. For the most part. Admittedly, I’ve fallen off the wheat wagon a time or two in the last couple weeks. Accidentally on purpose, if you [...]