This post is pure mama. Not much green but lots of mom. So for those of you logging on for the eco-twist, sorry to disappoint but I have pure mom thoughts today. Was just out of town in Nashville for a convention. A car full of fabulous friends and I headed 8 hours South to …

Tis the season for good family doctor fun. Flu shots, back to school immunizations to catch up on, and the ever present panic about this H1N1 thing. Are there going to be enough vaccinations to go around? If so, do we dare all get one because it has not been out long enough to really …

Nowadays if you slap the word “green” across any event, industry, or article of clothing it is rumored this will boost sales and recognition. As a nation always in hot pursuit of the latest trend, we’ve managed to make ourselves feel good by recycling, repurposing a few items, and maybe buying a hemp handbag or …

It’s Fall. Finally. Almost officially. Leaves dropping from trees colorfully, wonderfully, Fall. My favorite time of year. Even though the back to school thing makes me panicky. Even though, as a Midwestern girl, I know this season signals the fact that I am about to be sequestered for three months come December. Even though soon …

Bono. I saw my first Joshua Tree Tour t-shirt in 1987. At that time I had no idea who the band was. Being in seventh grade and all I just thought the t-shirt looked cool. Little did I know that some 20 years later I would join 80,000 of my mostly white 30/40-something peers at …

I had a phase in college when I thought that perhaps I would become a vegetarian. I had no real reason for doing so other than acting sort of hippie-ish seemed like an identity that I wanted to try on for a while. That and a good friend at the time was a vegetarian. Vegan …

Today our family, like millions of other Americans, sat in holiday weekend traffic to get back home after an extra day away. I sat in the passenger seat and watched boats, jet-skis, 4X4’s, horse trailers, and any other sort of recreational gadget you can imagine inch down Interstate 90 alongside of us. Slow going. We …

Sigh. We are now two days into our second week of school. Our oldest started Kindergarten last Monday. A milestone indeed. And in perfectly predictable fashion, there were tears involved on my part. Not as many as I had anticipated that day, but a few before and a few after. This I had planned on. …