Outside the Box: Living TV-free
Imagine inviting a guest to your house who seems – at first – charismatic and endlessly entertaining, able to expound on topics from current events and sports to history and world travel. Before long,...
Author: Marina Schauffler
“Fed Up:” A New Look at Sugar
In the documentary “Fed Up,” Katie Couric and Laurie David depict America’s sugar-saturated food system in ways that are at once startling and all too familiar. It reveals why Americans have such a hard...
Rest and Renewal Outdoors
In the first of her “Little House” books, Laura Ingalls Wilder describes a Sunday afternoon in her grandfather’s youth. He and his brothers had just built a sled, but the Sabbath had begun before...
Finding Joy in Enough
With Black Friday behind us, we are now officially in the annual biathlon of spending and overeating – a feeding frenzy not for the faint of heart or light of wallet. Economists see the...
Facing Climate Disruption
As I write these words, a wild card storm has just blown through the area, dumping a foot of heavy snow atop trees still holding their leaves. It was the second nor’easter in two...
Caring Less about Cars
In the decades after World War II, cars represented much more than mere transportation. From finned convertibles to the VW bug, they brimmed with personality and symbolized the road to freedom. America’s passion for...
Right-sizing Our Homes
From food and beverage portions to vehicles, we’re a nation with a penchant for super-sizing. Our homes have succumbed to this trend – with the average new home size growing from 983 square feet...
Treasures of the Dark
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, And find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, And is traveled by dark feet and dark wings. — Wendell Berry In movies, books and...
