I love to get cards and letters in the mail, don’t you? There’s just something truly special about a handwritten note that really brightens my day. When we were homeschooling, I wanted my kids to understand and appreciate the value of handwriting, so we wrote letters to family and friends as a regular part of…
The Ingalls Family and Us
In March 1974, “Little House on the Prairie” premiered on network television. Based on the children’s books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, this dramatic series ran for nine years, garnered four Emmys and 16 nominations, and remains one of the most successful shows in the history of television. Despite its age, “Little House” remains popular with…
Compass Points: Passion, Talent, Opportunity
“Never follow your passion,” says Mike Rowe. “But always bring it with you.” Rowe, the host of the series “Dirty Jobs”—which recently returned to television—is renowned for urging others to pursue opportunities instead of passions: “Just because you’re passionate about something doesn’t mean you won’t suck at it. And just because you’ve earned a degree…
From Adolescence to Adulthood: Responsibilities Trump Rites
The online Britannica defines a rite of passage as a “ceremonial event, existing in all historically known societies, that marks the passage from one social or religious status to another.” In the same article, the authors offer more specifics: “Many of the most important and common rites of passage are connected with the biological crises,…
A Grandmother’s Guestbook Records a Life of Love on Every Page
I sit in the living room of my grandmother’s bungalow in Kent, England, a stone’s throw away from the Dover Cliffs, where we spent the afternoon drinking tea in the National Trust gift shop while watching the ferries come into the harbor in pouring rain. My girls are asleep, tucked up in the coveted “fluffy…
7 Easy Ways to Have More Fun
If you’ve been adulting for any good stretch, you may have run into this phenomenon in which having fun doesn’t come as naturally as it used to. Think about it—when’s the last time you actually had some honest-to-goodness fun? How often do you enjoy being silly or playful or childlike? If you’re like most adults…
Finding Meaning in Your 2nd Act
For most people, early and mid-adulthood consist of pursuing career goals, starting and providing for a family, and seeking extrinsic fulfillment. It can seem like one’s whole life is preparation for these phases. But what happens afterward—when the kids fly the nest and it comes time for retirement? That’s the subject of the new book…
Children Left Vulnerable to Obesity Through Food Miseducation, Warns Doctor
February 18, 2023
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The path to childhood obesity begins before birth and gets more complicated as children become the targets of food marketers who promise delicious fun with processed foods made with questionable and even disease-causing ingredients. Parents—many victims of the same influences—may hope schools and governments will educate and protect their children, but the reality is that…
The Biophilia Hypothesis: Are We Hardwired to Be Cured by Nature?
There’s an adage that goes, “If you want to boil a live frog, don’t turn up the heat too quickly, or the frog will jump out of the pot.” Aside from why you would want to boil a frog, the point is that we may not notice destructive changes when they affect us slowly until…
Protecting Yourself and Your Loved-Ones in the Face of a Chemical Disaster
The Ohio train derailment on February 3 highlights an essential fact of modern life that we all need to be prepared for: Our world runs, in large part, on toxic chemicals and we will inevitably be exposed to, either through the intentional use of everyday products, or accidental exposures like the train that was carrying…
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