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.…
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…
"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…
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…
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…