John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America, is another person not afraid to speak up. Robbins was the heir to Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest ice-cream empire founded by his father and uncle in 1945. His home even had a swimming pool in the shape of an ice-cream cone! Read the rest of this entry »
Abraham Lincoln, who is widely regarded as the greatest American president of all time, stood out for his personality and strength of character more than anything else. Not that his accomplishments were minor — on the contrary, they were very major. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the wisest persons in my life was my mother. She was uneducated and illiterate, yet most of the time, she knew what was the right thing to do. Her wisdom kept the family together and our stomachs full, in spite of our financial hardships. Read the rest of this entry »
Hiring someone to help clean was the best gift I could ever have received. Now I give that gift to myself every summer when my stepkids move in.
When you start doing chores for people whom you don’t feel close to yet, it can feel pretty rotten, especially if they don’t treat you very nicely or if they sit on the couch and watch television while you pick up after them. “I think one of the things that can happen is stepmothers can take on a martyr complex,” says author and stepmother Anne O’Connor. Read the rest of this entry »
