Charlie Brown worried about the shallow consumerism of the holidays, but he never mentioned one of the most egregious side effects of that consumerism: massive holiday waste. Massive easily preventable holiday waste. According to Stanford University: “Americans throw away 25% more trash during the Thanksgiving to New Year’s holiday period than any other time...
As a devoted chocolate lover, I was horrified to discover that many of my favorite seasonal treats – treats that bring so much joy to children here in the US – are produced using cruel, abusive child labor. The bigger the brand, the more likely it is to contain chocolate harvested with the sweat and tears...
As with any other event we have, we wanted to keep Flintstone’s Second Birthday party as sustainable as possible. And, as with everything else in our lives, this goal had to work around our own crazy busy schedules. Now, I’m not the kind of mom who goes all out for a birthday my baby...
There have been a slew of pregnancy announcements in my life lately. It seems like half of my friends (or their significant others) are pregnant. So many of the women who were pregnant at the same time I was are at it again. I am so happy for everyone, but I’m also a little...
It’s a balmy, buggy night in South Carolina, though there is a very pleasant breeze softly shifting the palmettos. The streetlights have been on for a couple hours already, but the parking lot in front of the General’s Building remains dark. I feel like some strange sort of smuggler when a car...
o Oddly enough, though, even though I have fewer followers now, I’ve been getting a lot more private messages and emails about the blog and our lifestyle. I’ve even picked up a freelancing position with a women’s health website (more on that in a future post). Yesterday, I got a message regarding green...
I’d like to say that, having a degree in Antropology that I try to keep up on, or being the vigorous homebirth advocate that I am, or reading as much as I do, I already knew about this book. But I would be lying. I “heard of it” from an attachment parenting Ryan...
Originally Posted: Feb 14, 2011 2:30 PM Parenting styles, strategies, and tactics! They’re all the rage these days! Then again, I suppose they always are among a certain group, and, as part of that group, I’m beginning to feel a little buffeted by the constant barrage of parenting advice. And I am not talking...