Say No to To-Go

It’s Friday night. What are you eating? Huge Burrito? Steaming Pizza? Are you going out or eating in? If taking it to go, consider the environment when ordering.
While packaging is part of the deal with to-go orders, various restaurateurs and patrons are devising fresh approaches to make take-out more lean and green. Happily, some environmentally [...]

Live Greener: Recycle This

Recycling is a huge part of our household’s garbage routine. My husband thinks I go overboard sometimes, but we recycle all cans, #1 and #2 plastic, all the paper, junk mail, and newspapers that come into the house. But what about those things that seem like they could be recycled but don’t have the little [...]

Storytelling, for All Ages

by Tracy Chipman
For ages and ages, since the birth of language, storytelling has existed. Some folks know exactly what storytelling is and some folks are just not quite sure. It can be a slippery notion to understand in this age of technology, but really it’s pretty simple…
Storytelling is a live, in the moment, interactive [...]

Running with Sole

by Zach Ashby
I saw her out of the corner of my eye and knew she was going to stop, just like I sometimes know a car is about to cut me off on the interstate. The important difference in this case was that she was driving a golf cart as part of her job as [...]

A “Smaller” You

by Paul Gerst
We live in an age and a culture that promotes a bigger, stronger, and faster is better, lifestyle. As consumers in a capitalist society that is what we’re supposed to do, but without turning this into a heated political discussion, I would like to turn the focus to the effects this “bigger-is-better” lifestyle [...]

Opened Mama’s Eyes and Heart

by Evelynn Rebecca Sobelewski

January 25, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.
7 lbs 8 ½ oz., 21 1/4 inches
I believe that stories have the power to change lives, inspire others and build a sense of common humanity amongst all human kind. One of the most universal experiences across cultures is the experience of childbirth. It is also one of the most [...]

Ten Holistic Ways to Prepare for the Intensity of Birth

by Virginia Bobro, Certified Childbirth Mentor, Doula, and Lactation Consultant
There are many ways to prepare for childbirth. We fill our brains with information and facts and research all about it. We hear others’ experiences and opinions, which can often be overwhelming to a pregnant woman! We prepare our body for birth by getting regular prenatal [...]

Mom-made Goods: That’s Adorable!

Local mom Beth Schwartz recently took over downtown Eau Claire’s longest-running kid’s consignment shop, That’s Adorable! (129 N. Barstow St.), and she’s excited about making a few changes. Beth says the shop will maintain its stock of consignment goods—though pared down and reorganized—so you’ll still find plenty of gently-used clothing for girls and boys (birth–size [...]

Ayurveda is for Everyone

Ayurveda, the Science of Life, provides a bright light of guidance for parents who are in the childbearing and rearing phase of life. Unless you live in ‘granola’ towns such as Asheville, NC or Boulder, CO, it may seem like you are swimming upstream to adopt a whole foods, organic lifestyle, but it is well [...]

Natural Fertility

Fertility is a blessing when you have it and a frustration when you want it. So why are so many couples having trouble with fertility? Why has the fertility industry become a two billion dollar per year business with in vitro treatments costing from $4,000 – $16,000 per treatment? Why is infertility so much more [...]

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