Valerie Andrews
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VALERIE is the Chief Storyteller for Reinventing Home, an online magazine exploring how home shapes our culture, creativity, and character. Isabel Allende calls this publication Brain Pickings for the Home—a thinking person’s guide to the well-lived life. Our contributors explore home as a personal sanctuary and interactive hive, and how home contributes to our health, happiness, and productivity. Valerie calls her own features “a mindful approach to home with a Jungian twist” and considers everything from the secret lives of our possessions to how the dust underneath your bed is related to the creation of the cosmos. Reinventing Home is nonprofit journalism at its best—a virtual living room for an enlightened conversation about the way we feel about our nests and the bigger issues that are shaping home today, from technology to climate change. Read more at www.reinventinghome.org
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SANCTUARY
Featuring contributions from Jean Shinoda Bolen, James Hollis, Tom Singer, Helen Marlo, Gilda Frantz,...
Craft as a Way of Life
"A laborer is one who works with his hands. A craftsman is one who works with his head and his hands. And an artist is one who also works with his heart." ...
Aging at Home: Then and Now
"What’s our history of aging at home and what kind of caregiving will we need today? How can we make the home a creative stage set for the last third of life?" ...
The Boy Crisis
"They’re diagnosed at two to four times the rate as girls with learning disabilities, have higher rates of depression and suicide, and are more likely to end up in prison or on drugs, or be killed in foreign wars." ...
This Analog Life: Can We Blame the Digital Age for the Disembodiment of Knowledge?
"Is our understanding of the world—and even our sense of self— diminished as we lose our paper trail?" ...
On Coming Home
"When I was growing up, we were moving all the time, we were leaving behind countries, friends, and sometimes a language." ...
The Art of Living in Uncertain Times
How do we cope? And how is this transition calling us to stretch and grow?
Aging at Home
Peggy Flynn (author of The Caregiving Zone) tells us how to update the aging...
Piano Lessons, Life Lessons
Music has saved my life. Not just listening, but the act of playing, the...
Can We Blame the Digital Age for the Disembodiment of Knowledge?
This is the age of Kindle, cloud storage, and the app-for-everything. We’ve said goodbye...