You could easily be labeled a Grinch for taking a stand against holiday consumerism. In a culture fixated on possessions and money, binge shopping and going into debt to give Christmas gifts loo  

It can be really difficult to escape the holiday season's vortex of associated problems. Cars and furnaces seem programmed to go fritzy in the winter, the cold makes it more difficult to exercise and  

Christian environmentalism can sound like an oxymoron. The religion's most visible adherents, the fundamentalist right, are like Holocaust deniers when it comes to global warming and favor business   

The old phone book slogan "Let Your Fingers Do the Walking" begins to sum it up, except in this case it's running relentlessly (if recklessly) toward a Nov. 30 deadline. NaNoWriMo, geek-speak  

I've suffered with a seasonally clogged nose for as long as I can remember. It's kept me awake at night and made me gag during the day. There's a long list of coworkers who can testify to the annoyin  

Antioch College is a mess. Its future hung in the balance last weekend as students, alumni, faculty and the entire village of Yellow Springs waited for an answer from the school's leaders: thumb  

Halloween has always been my favorite time of year. It's the only holiday that's really for kids. It's all fun: no rituals, no observances, no propaganda. Why aren't more holidays this cool?   

Local holistic living consultant Krystal Dawson says she noticed something odd when she was working for a carpet installer in Boise, Idaho, eight years ago. Workers were told it was imperative that t  

Personalities fascinate. That's why, despite the laws they pass, the films they produce, the inventions they create, it's the people behind the creation that we're most curious about. Rockets t  

Some years ago I read, with macabre fascination, a book that described what happens to our bodies when we die. The chapter on embalming and the anaerobic decomposition process influenced my decision