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sustainable living

The Vegetarian Family – Begginings

November 22, 2011

Recently my 13-year-old son announced he wanted to be a vegetarian. I was shocked, surprised and thrilled! I had been a vegetarian since at 16, when I quit my first job at McDonald’s in Boulder, Colorado at the behest of my Hare Krishna sister, Narada. My vigilant vegetarian streak lasted 13 years, until I married [...]

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The Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning

August 8, 2010

After eight months of planning, the Storytime Yoga Road School of Experiential Learning has begun. It has several goals: 1)    That my children, ages 10 and 12, learn experientially while traveling to get a global education, learn foreign language, learn about local customs, food supply, geography and history as well as other aspects of the [...]

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Living without a car and other sustainable living issues for families

August 1, 2010

I’ve been without owning a car for more than 30 days now. While the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was raging, I could not live with the fact that by owning a car and living in America I was participating in this disaster. I sold my Prius to a friend and decided [...]

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Father’s Day Gift You and the Kids Can Give That Only Requires Imagination, Not Cash.

June 16, 2010

Father’s day is coming up, and surely you are under the spell of a thousand media messages to buy some THING for Dad, rather than celebrate his paternal grandeur an meaning in your life and the symbolic role and energy of “father.” Such is our Western society. We are in the clutches of media’s hypnotism, and [...]

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Global education, yoga and the search for sustainable living

June 15, 2010

Nostaligic record store in Buenos Aires. I have come to Argentina in search of places to bring my children for a global education and sustainable living. As I see my home Colorado landscape and cities needing to be renamed “Suburbistan,” with its soulless architecture, monotony of consumerism and gutting of public schools, I started to [...]

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Anger, Meditation, The Hulk and Boys

May 19, 2010

Last night I watched the Incredible Hulk with my 12-year-old son. I watch these types of movies from time to time with him for fun, as I do watch girl movies with my daughter, like Hannah Montana (never thought I’d do that one!) It was fun to see shots of original cast member Bill Bixby [...]

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