“Then there are those rare days … that dawn with a clarity that muscles its way into every home and studio and office . . . There’s a delicious radiance that seems to come from the things themselves . . .” – David Abram We experienced our first spring-like day this weekend — birds singing,…
Today Shareable.net published my article about living and working collectively. It starts: Aprovecho is a 40-acre center 15 miles south of Eugene, Oregon dedicated to researching and teaching sustainable living practices and green skills. Rosie Kirincic works there with six other staff members. She lives with four of them on-site. Those six people are coordinating the…
For the last eight years, researchers at the McGill University Institute of Health and Social Policy and the Harvard School of Public Health have been studying workplace conditions and protections around the world. They looked at 190 of the 192 United Nations countries, comparing the following workplace policies: Paid maternity leave The right of mothers…
Depression is a common ailment. A study recently published in the journal Psychological Science found that: 41% of young adults experience major depression One half suffer from some kind of anxiety disorder And nearly one third are dependent on alcohol by the age of 32. Depression is hardly new, but its occurrence is on the…
When I was pregnant and preparing for a home birth, I inhaled every book about childbirth in my local library. Somewhere around the fourth or fifth month of my pregnancy, when I was getting too round to squeeze into jeans with zippers and the January rains were flooding down each night, I came across A…