Slick move on McCain’s part to add a woman to the GOP ticket. I let out a big groan when I heard he’d chosen a woman, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. I was a big Clinton supporter and I’m 100% behind women in politics, but I don’t think I’m the only one that automatically saw that [...]

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NBC rejected a Picken’s Plan 15 second ad this week. I’m surprised by that since the other major networks accepted it. Do they have more money than the others and thus are pickier? Do they see it as too controversial? Too self-serving? (Isn’t that what ads are?) I’m curious about it because the ad doesn’t [...]

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I read an interesting article recently in my local Diablo Magazine. It was about homework and the crazy amounts that our children are now expected to undertake each night.
Now I know that the mind can play tricks on you as you get older, and details get little fuzzy, but I can honestly say that I [...]

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My five year old is so into the whole Star Wars culture that, last week, he announced that he wanted to see the new movie The Clone Wars in the theater.  Excuse me?  That’s right, in the dark, loud, scary theater where disorienting trailers come at you without warning, with the volume so pumped up [...]

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So, I just got back from an amazing camping trip with the kids. I have developed a love of the outdoors that only grows bigger each time I take a trip. This time we stayed along the coast right off of Highway 1 in Sonoma County at Stillwater Cove Campgrounds. Getting ready for the journey [...]

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Today MuseGreen formally announces its green shopping experience, where 2% of all proceeds will be donated to our hand-chosen environmental causes.
Now, of course, we’d love everybody to choose from our selection of eco-friendly, organic products, but we also know that life’s not always like that and sometimes that’s just not possible. So, whatever you buy [...]

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For my family of six, going green is an ongoing process. Because really, when are you ever truly green? Changing old habits and behavior to make less waste is great when you’re willing to take the time and effort to do it. Starting the process is easy by changing light bulbs to fluorescent or taking [...]

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I love good tomatoes, the only-available-in-summer kind, with firm flesh and flavors so sweet and complex you can almost taste the soil.  That is to say, not the store bought kind. In her book Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver searches for an American “food culture” by eating – and feeding [...]

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“Fair trade, organic undies for nice people” is the tag line for GreenKnickers.org, a fabulous website where you can buy eco-friendly knickers, boxers and cycling shorts (depending upon what tickles your fancy, so to speak!)

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