Search
Total number of posts: 23657
The uses of desperation
[caption id="attachment_237070" align="alignleft" width="358"] Photo: Rizwan Vaheed[/caption] Terrorism may grab the headlines, but across Pakistan, hundreds of unknown activists are working to promote diversity and tolerance. By Amber Vora | March/April Issue 2012 On a hazy winter afternoon last Read More...
“Menopause is a wake-up call”
Babette Dunkelgrun | March/April 2012 Issue Christine Northrup, author of The Wisdom of Menopause, on the psychological meaning of menopause. How do you define menopause? “It’s a rebirth of your soul. There is a distance between how you Read More...
Still on the journey
It’s time for an article about menopause that does justice to the situation for women with partners and children. Lisette Thooft | March/April 2012 Issue She woke up one morning and her libido was gone, Hanny Roskamp writes in her uplifting account of menopause. To her surprise, she discovered Read More...
“When your heart is broken, you can feel everything”
Emily Avilés | March/April 2012 Issue Susan Piver, a meditation teacher and practicing Buddhist, explores questions about how to live an authentic life. Her most recent book, The Wisdom of a Broken Heart, examines heartbreak—romantic and otherwise—from the perspective of the surprising Read More...
The meaning of menopause
Sometimes a positive experience hits you from left field. The socially and culturally defined pressure to stay young, fertile and vibrant as long as we can is enormous, but what does it do to us? Hanny Roskamp | March/April 2012 Issue I’m 48 now. A year and half ago, I could still say I Read More...
It’s good to give
Giving improves physical and mental health, enhances communal bonds, spreads wealth—and best of all, it’s contagious. Diana Rico | December 2011 Issue Five years ago, I was coming out of Vidiots, my favorite video store in Venice, California, when I spotted him sitting on the ground against the Read More...
Economics for a blue planet
Gunter Pauli, author of The Blue Economy, on why blue is the new green. By Jurriaan Kamp and Marco Visscher Armed with an MBA from the French business school INSEAD, Gunter Pauli was in his mid-30s when he took the reins at Ecover, the Belgian cleaning products manufacturer that ran into Read More...
The work comes to the workplace
Spiritual teacher Byron Katie on how insight into our attitudes toward competition and profit can make business better. Jurriaan Kamp | December 2011 Issue Byron Katie was in her early thirties, living in Southern California and working in the real estate business, when she started to suffer from Read More...
The return of the Rotary
Eric Larson | December 2011 Issue Ask anyone under 40 about Kiwanis International, Rotary International, Toastmasters International or Lions Clubs International, and you’re likely to get one of the following reactions: blank stares, a story about a grandparent’s involvement or this question: Read More...
Integration in a pan
How to create a real melting pot Elbrich Fennema | December 2011 Issue If the playwright Israel Zangwill had been familiar with the Moroccan kitchen, he might have given his 1908 play about an assimilated society a title other than “The Melting Pot.” The term doesn’t reflect the utopian Read More...