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Sheepish: An Easy Needle Felting Tutorial for a Handmade Toy
Needle felting is an inherently satisfying little craft, as I’ve mentioned once before. The materials are simple, the design principles easy to learn, and the results are wonderfully cute. Of course,...
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Dragonbreath Pickles: Homemade Spicy Cucumber Quick-Pickled Goodness
Here be dragons, as the old maps used to say. You have been warned: these pickles do not mess around. They are perfect for situations such as the long, intimate family gathering I just attended,...
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Hot Reads: The Fracking Fight Blows Up, and the Most Compelling Video Clip in...
Photo by John Kovacich The pressure mounts on fracking In the past few years, the use of fracking has surged across the country, but with it has come real opposition, and a growing sense of the costs....
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Safer Cosmetics and Personal Care Products: Avoiding the Dreaded “Icky 11″
If you’re on a search and destroy mission for toxins in your home (and you are — right, friend?), a pretty good place to start is the bathroom. Personal care products are rife with nasty and suspect...
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Making a Spartan Dessert Sing: Chocolate Squares with Lemon Curd
Lately, I’ve noticed that anyone who seeks to join an Upright Citizens Brigade of self-satisfied health types is told they should happily be willing to make do with a “dessert” of monastic simplicity:...
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Ten Easy Tips for Hosting a Greener, Healthier Kid’s Birthday Party
I like parties. I always invite most everyone I know, and find it a wonderous thing to get invited to them as well (hint, hint). Nonetheless, for the first two years of Maya’s existence, I thought a...
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Toxic Hot Seat on HBO tonight!
Red sofa (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hallelujah! A new film about the struggle to understand and address the hidden poisons in our sofas — Toxic Hot Seat — airs for the first time tonight on HBO. Slate...
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Parenting Through the Fog: 8 of My Personal “Truths”
No one can tell you what kind of parent to be. Instead, it’s a long performance, consisting of attempts, failures, mistakes, experiments, accidents, snips, scrapes and sniffles and — when you’re lucky...
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A Facebook for Federal Bureaucrats, or What Real Government Transparency...
Watching Aneesh Chopra rather lamely defend the Obama Administration’s record on its use of information technology on The Daily Show this week, I was struck by the same problem that Stewart was...
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Sowing the Seeds of Change in Chicago: The New “Gardeneers”
Happily cross-posted from the Food Day blog. About forty children were crouched into small balls on the ground in front of vegetable planters. “Let’s pretend we’re seeds,” Adam Zmick, a former...
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