Imagine inviting a friend into your home for a visit and a long talk. Then imagine serving something as beautiful as these hand-tied tea blossoms in a clear mug of hot water. You could be discussing the saddest thing: a divorce, an illness, death, or mishap. But the tea would revive and uplift you both.…

When I look back on the days when I was either nursing or carrying my children constantly, I remember two things: The way Mr. Chattering would rush home to help me (since he’s generally worked in offices and I’ve mostly worked from home), and the life-saving humor of my women’s group–mothers I’d met at the…

I upset a reader last Sunday with my post that said that while I favor natural medicines to conventional ones, I am trying not to judge those who go the conventional route because I’ve come to see that mood-altering medicines for depression and sleeplessness “may have” a role. I wish now I’d said, “have a…

Today, I noodled around a website called GreenHome.com, and I realized, quite frankly, that I’m not as green as I like to think. Green Home markets a vast collection of hard-to-find products, all environmentally sound. I like the site’s no-frills atmosphere, and the way it seems to widen the field of what’s sustainable or good…

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