This is as much a regular feature as I have one: I have been curating collections of fabulous vegan recipes every Thanksgiving for three years now and I think this year’s bunch takes the cake. Please check out my previous round-ups to keep the creative juices and ideas flowing. …

I have been reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell lately, which is not really about what the title implies but opting out of the algorithms that orient us toward standardization and place us in like-minded bubbles, echo chambers of surround sound. It is, in…

Not too long ago, I posted about a wish I had on a beautiful night to just be able to take a walk. I knew if I could just walk for a couple of miles, that could quell my restlessness. It was 3:00 in the morning, though. I couldn’t go…

You can have fun and celebrate without hurting the animals. Here are 30 fabulous recipes to get sooth your spooky spirit this Halloween season.

Beverages

1. I didn’t reevaluate my life and how I use my time.

Instead, I sat in my office like a confused lump staring into the abyss of a planet that is sputtering and spitting out people like a possessed copier that needs an exorcism.

2. I didn’t still check Facebook every ten minutes.

I did this on average every five or six minutes. Sometimes I wasn’t checking the working status, I…

I make no secret about the fact that I think Halloween is the best time of the year but with all the festivities, we should still remember that we can always increase or reduce harm to animals. …

Years ago, as a 20-year-old in my first apartment, I started learning to cook because eating boxed stuffing mix every night, tasty as it was, was not really a way for a functional adult to sustain herself. I was a vegetarian and it didn’t have meat in it so I…

First, a disclosure: I don’t know everything. I know that is a shocking revelation.

Second, another disclosure: I have been a highly ineffective vegan many times, way more often than I’d like to spend much time ruminating on. I have been vegan since the 1990s, so mistakes have been made…