Author: Susanne Meyer-Fitzsimmons

Have you ever wondered why there is so much warfare, strife, and conflict out there? Mother Teresa supposedly replied to an invitation to participate in

I’m not much of a fiction reader but I just finished Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees and enjoyed it a lot.  The story conveys what I

So many people view food as their enemy, consciously or not so consciously.  Whether it’s the perception that fat is bad, that cholesterol clogs your

I have a lot of different types of tea in my kitchen cabinet, soothing green sencha, earthy green barley popcorn Genmaicha, perfumy black Early Grey

A few people in our town have complained about the looks of an enormous solar field that powers the entire school district, but also about

The other night I cut up some red cabbage to make a salad for dinner… and stopped in my tracks. I simply was struck by

One of the main topics in the organics versus conventional food conversation is that it’s not cheap.  But consider that Americans spend less than 10%

            The other day I crossed paths with a woman at the supermarket, or should I say lady, who was

            Ice cream servings in a cone are small in Europe, probably a bit less than half the size of

Slow anything is beneficial as an antidote to our fast paced lives, whether Slow Food, Slow Yoga, or Slow Something Else.  Slowing an activity delves