I loved the Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder as a girl, and read all eight books to my son when he was about 6. After that, I went in search of a similar series…
Just finished reading Charlotte’s web to my son, out loud, for the third time. You probably remember the story — a barnyard spider named Charlotte’s saves a pig named Wilbur’s life by weaving words into her web. I love this…
“Talking to the Wall” is documentary film maker Steve Alves’ account of Greenfield’s 1992 battle against Wall-Mart which made it the first town in the country to successfully reject Wall-Mart’s advances. Engaging, beautifully edited, and fact-filled, this documentary reminds us…
This is one of my favorite books at the moment. It’s essentially an autobiography of Helen (and Scott) Nearing, famous before-their-time back-to-the-landers, vegetarians, and intellectual, and authors of Living the Good Life. Helen and Scott went “back to the land”…
Amy Dacyczyn is a New England mother, graphic artist, and military wife who published a popular newsletter in the ’90s called The Tightwad Gazette. She’s creative, smart, and calls herself “the frugal zealot.” Rather than “doing without” for its own sake,…