A guide to the well-lived life, covering everything from relationships and culture to our place in the natural world.
ISABEL ALLENDEHOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
Explores our longing for sanctuary, considering everything from climate migration and new work patterns to our mythology of home. A treasure trove of journalism, art, and storytelling.
JEAN SHINODA BOLENGODDESSES IN EVERYWOMAN
Considers ancient traditions of honoring the hearth and modern challenges of rootlessness, lack of time, and loss of place. A meditation on our sense of longing and belonging---and our search of home wherever we can find it.
PHIL COUSINEAUSOUL: AN ARCHAEOLOGY, THE BOOK OF ROADS

PERSONAL HISTORY

A Taste of the Old Country

Can we travel back in time through a crumb of chocolate cake? Let the tongue open up the imagination, then sit in wonder as a piece of history unfolds — as it did for Proust who conjured up the Belle Epoque while savoring a madeleine? This is a story about a recipe handed down through several generations and about the memories we can recover through the medium of taste.

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Holiday Thoughts of Home

My mother lived in the past, and when her ideal of the Currier and Ives Christmas didn’t measure up, she was angry and hurt and made our home life miserable. Now I have my own version of a Currier and Ives Christmas—one both satisfying and attainable.

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Art and Memory

The paintings in Leo Tadek’s home are a memoir of his marriage, his life in Belgium and in Moscow — and they also double as a tour of European history.

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