A Woman’s Guide to Having It All: Life Lessons to Live By By Celia Ward-Wallace Celia Ward-Wallace wants you to know something: When you were conceived, you had already won the biggest race of your life—you came into the world a winner, whole and full of greatness. Because of that, you can envision and create […]
The first cookbook I ever owned was Adele Davis’ Let’s Cook It Right, and to this day I still use some of her recipes. I’d been raised in a meat ‘n’ potatoes family, so many of her ideas were very eye-opening for me. I’ll never forget my first bowl of granola with wheat germ and […]
A film by Austin Vickers Review by Abigail Lewis If you’re wondering why you sometimes feel overwhelmed, it might be that each one of us receives an estimated 4 billion bits of sensory information a day. These are transmitted to the brain, which then filters them into an internal representation, or experience of events based […]
Directed by Holly Mosher Review by Jacquelin Sonderling How much does it cost to take a woman from poverty to a life of self-determination? Pennies a day, if you ask economist Mohammad Yunus. Yunas realized that traditional economic theory doesn’t apply to people who are so poor they can’t even meet their basic needs, and […]
Written and directed by Elizabeth Browning If you live in an urban center of the United States and make it to the age of 40, it’s almost guaranteed that at some point you’re going to look in the mirror and be appalled to see a few wrinkles, or as one ingenuous three-year old described this […]
Directed by Jon Fitzgerald The path to deeper self-understanding and spiritual fulfillment can take many forms. So why not on a white-knuckle motorcycle trip at an elevation of 18,000 feet? The Highest Pass follows the journey of seven people, each on his own spiritual quest. Their guide—a 27-year-old bike-riding, iPhone-wielding yogi named Anand Mehrotra, whose […]
When we think of Surrealist artists, our minds generally go to such painters as Salvador Dali, Juan Miro and Rene Magritte—all men. But there are a number of powerful women Surrealist painters, most of whom are less well known, who worked in the more progressive United States and Mexico, rather than in Europe where old-world […]
My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life Book by Priscilla Warner Hobbled by panic attacks that leave her gasping and almost immobilized, Priscilla Warner undertakes a journey to find the peace that has eluded her for as long as she can remember. In the process she reconnects with emotional pivot points, learns the […]
Directed by Marisa Miller Wolfson What happens when you get three committed carnivores to agree to eating—gulp!—vegan for six weeks? You turn a few lives upside down and open their eyes not only to a different way of eating but to a gruesome side of the meat industry. Writer/director Marisa Miller Wolfson uses a lighthearted […]
It may be somewhat “unconventional,” but Deva Premal and Miten’s life together seems joyous, grounded and healthy.