Tag: Brindle 24

  • For the Love of Pears

    I’ve been loving pears these days, as I tend to do through the last days of summer and first days of fall. I made up a new virgin cocktail recipe I call “The Sweet Tart” yesterday and a new confection recipe, “Light Chocolate Mousse” today. Both are plant-based recipes and vegan, with the sweetness of…

  • Ghost Sightings in the Museum

    Do you believe in ghosts? Have you seen one? I used to believe that other people saw ghosts, though I hadn’t seen or heard any myself, which is probably a kind of believing. Who am I to say what another person has seen or not seen? It could be a ghost sighting, it could be…

  • New Books: Global Chorus Offers Essays of Hope

    In the new book Global Chorus, 365 different essays – including one of mine – answer the question: Do we have hope? How would you answer? The chorus comes from scientists, authors, artists, humanitarians, political, and spiritual leaders responding to editor Todd MacLean’s not-so-simple, and surprising query. He asked each of us to send him…

  • Ai Weiwei Asks Brooklyn: What Does Your #Activism Look Like?

    Ai Weiwei Asks Brooklyn: What Does Your #Activism Look Like?

    “What does your #activism look like?” Ai Weiwei asks us in his new art exhibit up at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, through August 10th, 2014. His question made me stop and think. As an author, my activism looks like the books I write, like Brindle 24 and Stream & Shale. I wrote these…

  • Mothers in an Industrial World

    Mothers in an Industrial World

    On Mother’s Day, my heart goes out to all the mothers who live in our industrialized world. During pregnancy, we mothers are the home for the new generation. Inside us, new beings miraculously develop from a single cell to a newborn baby. This internal, intensely private home is influenced by all the things around us…