Stories of Home

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  Books for your holiday gift list “You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C. S. Lewis To bring this list to you, several independently owned bookstores on the Cape were polled for their suggestions on the latest books that are currently receiving good [...]

Gluten-free at IDGY’s

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Have your cake & eat it,too! Chances are if you haven’t gone gluten-free in your diet yourself, you know someone who has. At one time it was thought you had to have celiac disease to have issues with gluten;­ now we know better, and folks who are “gluten sensitive” are also eschewing it as well. [...]

On the Threshold of 2012

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Here we are on the threshold of the warily awaited mega-year 2012, counting down to December 21, 2012. This date and its mystique have captured the public’s imagination like no other. With misinformation, speculation, fear, hope and hype abounding, many are fearing cataclysmic Apocalypse, while others are envisioning a seamless transition into a golden age [...]

Art of Dissent

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Cocodrillo I have no idea where my house keys are. I’m sure they’re somewhere but I don’t care to lock the world out. I tell you this because what could anyone possibly steal? Forty two dollars in my sock drawer? The kids drawings off the fridge? Thieves would get lost in the mire of a [...]

Why Writers Write

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        Much has been said about the torturous aspects of writing. Ernest Hemingway joked, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Oscar Wilde lamented, “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. [...]

Something to Smile About

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  Most people don’t expect to gain a deeper understanding of their whole health from a visit to the dentist. They don’t expect to be treated in a comfortable office setting with picture-window views overlooking a gentle river, or have complementary health services available on-site. But then, most people haven’t been to Herring River Holistic [...]

Food as Gift

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An invitation to explore the healing power, joy and possibility for connection made available to us when we gather around food with our families and our community “The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.” –M.F.K. Fisher When I first learned [...]

Celebrating Birth ~ From Home To Hospital

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It is nothing short of amazing when a child is born. Through the long months of waiting, through the hopes and fears, through the powerful tumult of labor; suddenly, a new life emerges – small and wet – and a family is transformed. “It’s such a magical moment when that baby comes into the world,” [...]

Passages: Conscious Approaches To End-Of-Life Care

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Taking back the caring for and burying of our dead; completion of life at home and the greening of our cemeteries Out in the woods behind my house there are two marked graves, women from the 1800s whose headstones tell us their names, their spouses’ names and the dates of their deaths. I visit them [...]

Yoga for the Rest of Us

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Yoga Showcase: The Moving Meditation Maureen Hammett’s yoga studio, The Moving Meditation, welcomes students into a simple, serene oasis that feels comfortable, rather than intimidating. Sunlight filters across the room from the corner windows, illuminating the warm sand-color walls and earth-toned carpet. Music plays softly. Instead of hushed anticipation before class, there’s amiable chatter. No [...]