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62Are You Traveling Green?
The recent rage in "eco-tourism," or traveling in ways that support the natural environment and local people, has made some folks nervous. They think they need to go to Costa Rica and save the sea turtles in...
2 comments68Become a Virtual Tourist!
In 1988 The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler was published, depicting Macon Leary's travel books which could make a traveler feel so comfortable it'd be as if he'd never left home. Here's one step better:...
5 comments72A Book-Lover's Neo-Luddite Lament in a Technological Age
My children will never use a typewriter. They've never seen one so they don't feel its absence. What's worse, their children may never know what a pencil is. Or paper. I miss paper. We haven't quite lost it completely, but the end is near. I...
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68Why Grocery Shopping with Children is Worse than Water Torture
While the nomination of potential U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey got hung up on questions over the use of waterboarding as a form of torture, I have a more urgent question for him: How does he feel...
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65Weaning Mama
"Her body had been in a war, and as in love, it had used every part of itself." -Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient After my children are asleep I sneak into their rooms to watch them. Open-mouthed and...
13 comments65The Top Ten Tech Toys
Christmas may be over, but that doesn't mean you can't buy fun new tech toys; after all, you need to find something to spend Auntie Mabel's gift certificate on. I'm going to ‘fess up right at the beginning -...
4 comments69BPA in Plastic is Bad for You
If pre-history gave us the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, then today's civilization must surely be identified as the Plastic Age. Plastic is ubiquitous in our modern society. Try spending one...
4 comments68Are Kids so Busy They're Missing Out on Childhood?
The idyllic days of childhood: playing with your friends, climbing trees, bickering with your siblings, watching bugs make odysseys across sidewalks, skinning your knees. These are my memories of childhood....
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