Community articles:

The Best Time to Make a Decision

Time of day and your last meal are as important as knowing the facts By Margaret Heffernan Judgment counts. As politically correct as the words “don’t judge” may be, we all make judgments every day that are essential to our health and well-being. We like to think that we make the big ones with enough […]

Make Space in Your Luggage for Gifts

Needy destinations value pencils and soccer balls more than candy and coins By Teresa Bergen Well-meaning travelers have long doled out coins, candy and pens to economically challenged local kids in foreign countries. When faced with a population that may lack electricity, clean water or other 21st century basics, it’s natural to want to give […]

Film: Solar Mamas

Jacquelin Sonderling reviews “Solar Mamas” from the PBS Independent Lens series, “Why Poverty?”.

Farmers Market Leftovers

Share the Love by Sharing the Food By Kat Thomas Growers can estimate, but it’s difficult to predict how many people will actually show up at the farmers market on any given day. Thus it’s not unusual to have leftovers when the last of the customers have trundled off home with their bursting bags of […]

Book review: The Rainbow Bridge

Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace By Brent N. Hunter When a publisher comes out with a new edition 10 years after the first printing, the original book having been translated into 23 languages around the world, it’s usually for a pretty good reason. Author Brent N. Hunter first published The Rainbow Bridge […]

Film: It’s a Girl

Directed by Evan Grae Davis While women’s reproductive rights may be under assault in the United States, in India, China and other parts of the world, girls’ very existence is not just threatened, but often denied. More females are missing on earth today from gendercide than the combined number of deaths from all the genocides […]