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Consume Less, Live Better
You may have noticed that green is the new black when it comes to raising babies these days. A swing back to cloth nappies and wooden toys shows that parents are starting to question the impact their families are making on the environment. Journalist and yoga teacher Debbie Hodgson (pictured right) has written a guide for parents keen to move to...
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Let’s Talk About God
They say you should never talk about religion or politics at the dinner table, but Mark Macleod wants to bring God back to kid's bookshelves. The author of a new children's picture book, God Is, Macleod turned his hand to writing after a successful career as a publisher and lecturer in children's literature. He was raised as a Presbyterian but turn...
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5-Minute Time Out: Ziggy Marley
There is no bigger name in reggae than "Marley," and Ziggy, son of Bob, is holding up the family moniker with pride. He's won four Grammy awards and released two hugely popular albums. But perhaps more important to grade-schoolers, he also sings that jammin' theme song on PBS?s Arthur, and did the voice of Ernie, the Rasta jellyfish in the movie...
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Michael Lewis & Tabitha Soren
When Michael Lewis's new parenting memoir, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, arrived in the office, we snatched it up. The author of the glorious baseball book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2004), and the prophetic Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (1990), is one of America's leading non-fiction w...
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5-Minute Time Out: Dr. Penelope Leach
As anyone who's tried to balance a career with a family knows, what we do is practically impossible. That we manage to get it done: raise our children, keep our jobs, is a miracle owing much to our do-or-die spirit, and very little to a culture that pays lip service to the family while making it extremely hard to take care of one, especially in...
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Interview: Tori Amos
Tori Amos has never shied away from thorny subjects. The outwardly lilting, inwardly wrenching songs on the ten studio albums the singer-songwriter has put out in her twenty-year career — her latest, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, is due out May 19th — have dealt with her own rape ("Me and a Gun") and the three miscarriages she suffered ("Spar...
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Interview: Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields's career began when she was featured in a soap ad at the tender age of eleven months, and it hasn't let up. Over the years Brooke has grown up in the public eye, starring on Broadway, in film, as well as in Suddenly Susan, her own TV series. Along the way she also found time to graduate with honors from Princeton. But the cornerstone...
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Cynthia Nixon
It's tempting to think of Cynthia Nixon, forty-two, as the real-life Miranda Hobbes — a high-strung stress bomb prepared to dropkick anybody in her path. But that's just because she's such an awesomely convincing actress. Offscreen, Nixon is way more thoughtful than her Sex & the City character. Also more gracious. If the two have anythin...
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