OMG, I’m going to be 65 in June! How did that happen so quickly? It seems only yesterday Kathy and I were settling down in NH awaiting the birth of our first child, though that was 38 years ago. This is the age, along with millions of other baby boomers, I should be entering retirement, my [Continue reading]

Herman Cain. Joe Paterno. The Catholic church. Politics. Sports. Religion. Connected by their positions of power, they are all guilty of using that power to allow and cover up the sexual abuse of children and women. This is the way the world has been for a long time, it's just more visible [Continue reading]

The Occupy Wall Street gatherings in cities around the world make me think the spirit of the 60's is finally returning. It's about time, and hopefully in the nick of time. The people camped out near Wall Street and across the globe are voicing the outrage of the silent majority who are saying, [Continue reading]

Another emerging company from Baltimore is Botanical Skin Works. Their mission is to create products that solve problems. Sharon Kinnier's software engineering firm had a contract at the Pentagon, but after 9/11 she decided to make soap.  Since then Sharon has formulated over 200 [Continue reading]

Karen Ciesar began Trillium Organics in 1994 in rural Wisconsin, employing local women in her USDA certified manufacturing facility. Prior to that, Karen was an attorney focused on social justice and environmental stewardship.  Those values are imbued in her company's mission: "to make healthy [Continue reading]

The need to create perpetual growth drives our economy. The real estate, banking, stock market crash of a year ago is the direct result of a system based on the need to generate more profit than really exists, to accumulate as much wealth as possible for a few individuals, damn the rest of [Continue reading]

I love spending quiet hours in the garden after work and on weekends, digging, planting, weeding, harvesting, and observing. This year's mild spring and prolonged summer, feeling more like North Carolina than New Hampshire, have been a particular blessing for local gardeners. There's been more [Continue reading]

Is it just me, or do children perform miracles right before our eyes on a daily basis?  I recently witnessed once again the impact a child can have on complete strangers. I had lunch with Michelle and her two children at Pizza Chef, our weekly habit as it ensures I get to see my 4 year-old god [Continue reading]

Religion is our expression of the divine, of the higher consciousness we refer to as God. Religion is a way of celebrating the creative intelligence that enables life on earth. When religion loses its spirituality it becomes the opposite of what it’s supposed to be. Religion without heart leads [Continue reading]

Everyone knows that without our health we have nothing, and without health insurance, we are told, we are at risk of losing everything. Conventional health insurance, though, is expensive, and even the most expensive plans don’t cover all the costs of a catastrophic illness. But the fear of [Continue reading]