Culture

Read the Kindred Press Release Here. When Lisa Reagan, Kindred's editor, suggested the idea of my being the first "artist-in-residence" at…

By Oriah Mountain Dreamer Thinking about giving, offering what we have and can give without endangering ourselves (ie.- truly sustainable giving.) Even a…

When I almost died in childbirth, I was blissfully unaware. I was captivated by the lights and sounds of the ambulance and said to the EMT, “Code Blue…that’s…

I hate to admit this, but I’ve come to feel entitled to breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day (complete with gifts and a clean kitchen afterwards), a family hike (no…

Children learn about the world through comparing and contrasting relationships between things. They learn to “be still” when they are told to “stop wiggling.”…

Listen to the original interview with Jamie Grumet on her experience as the Time cover advocate for full-term breastfeeding in May 2012.  Lisa Reagan asks Jamie…

In the wake of terror attacks, politicians are fond of proclaiming, “We will not be intimidated.” By this they seem to mean that we won’t cower in fear, but…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UvcdSFCwrao Bringing new life into the world can be risky business for moms and the babies they…

The journey for many of us is to become healers, to become increasingly mentally, physically and spiritually mature ourselves, to throw off the conditioning of…

At a conference recently I happened to overhear a conversation between one of the speakers, a vice-president of Nestle Corporation, and a college student who…