I try to be a happy person, and I’m becoming more and more aware of the fact that to be truly happy, you have to look beyond yourself. (This seems particularly true when you consider recent events.) So I decided to pose the question “what role should things like “volunteerism, charity and giving back” play in […]
Archives for December 2012
Blue Christmas
“It was Christmas eve babe In the drunk tank. An old man said to me, Won’t see another one.’ And then he sang a song, The rare auld Mountain Dew I turned my face away and dreamed about you…” These are the opening lines of The Pogues’ magnum opus, Fairytale of New York. Over the […]
Episode 67: Holiday Stress
For episode 67 of the RLSG, we decided to talk about “holiday stress”. This was before our perception of the world changed – just two days ago – as the heartbreaking series of events played out in Newtown. There will be more than the normal level of stress during this holiday season, and for too […]
Episode 66: Conserving Energy In Your Home
This time I decided to focus on extreme temperatures and money – two things I have a problem with. For this conversation, I invited Duo Dickinson (who happens to be an architect with a passion for such matters), writer Bob Tedeschi, animal rescuer (and farm gal) Kathleen Schurman, travel industry goddess Katie Gerhard, and our […]
Wither Winter
The advent of winter is more than a religious season for my Episco-homies, it’s the time of ecumenical energy freak out. That first oil refill, gas bill or cord of wood delivery creates an economic edge to an environmental truth: mammals do not make enough internal heat to be warm when it’s cold. Reptiles need […]
Susan Campbell: You Don’t Know Squat
When I first met my husband, I nearly dismissed him. He was the most handsome man in the room, and handsome men (in my experience) don’t have personalities. They don’t need them. They only have to walk into a room, and someone pulls them out a chair, lights their cigar, and then watches raptly as […]
Episode 65: Getting Along
The holiday season has me thinking about parties, decorations and family togetherness… and the way people freak out when things don’t live up to their expectations. So, in honor of this “emotional minefield” of a time of year, I decided to convene a group of the usual suspects for a conversation about the broader subject of […]