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Ten Common Features of Successful Longtime Vegans

A couple of years ago, I posted this question to my Facebook friends: “I’m curious: for those who have been vegan for more than five years, what factors do you attribute to your longevity as a vegan? There are many things that tempt people away from veganism, from a desire…

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Ten Life Lessons from Longtime Vegans…
Ten Life Lessons from Longtime Vegans…
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Thirty Days of New Vegan Tips for World Vegan Month

Here are fresh tips for each day in November to celebrate World Vegan Day (November 1) and World Vegan Month. With so many benefits and so much at stake, there has never been a better time to embrace your inner-herbivore. November 1/Day 1 There are so many amazing resources for new and transitioning…

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Thirty Days of New Vegan Tips for World Vegan Month
Thirty Days of New Vegan Tips for World Vegan Month
Vegan

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Jan 18

Of Pecking and Poking: The Moments that Change Us for a Lifetime

It’s probably that new year, short-days/long-nights rumination mode happening, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about a crossroads moment in my life. Do you ever think about those watershed experiences in your life? Defining, though perhaps outwardly humdrum, incidents that reordered your life, altered your perspective, changed your trajectory…

Compassion

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Of Pecking and Poking: The Moments that Change Us for a Lifetime
Of Pecking and Poking: The Moments that Change Us for a Lifetime
Compassion

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Dec 16, 2022

25 Vegan Hanukkah Recipes to Light Up Your Life

This year, Hanukkah officially starts Sunday, December 18 and ends Monday, December 26, totally overlapping with this other lesser-known holiday that a few people celebrate on December 25. Whatever! Hanukkah’s food traditions are often centered around the symbols of miracles, specifically with how the oil used in the menorah to…

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25 Vegan Hanukkah Recipes to Light Up Your Life
25 Vegan Hanukkah Recipes to Light Up Your Life
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Dec 9, 2022

A Little Bit Naughty and a Little Bit Nice: 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Recipes from Eggnog to Yule Logs

There is no reason you have to give up the food traditions that you remember fondly. With an open mind and a willingness to experiment a little, you can find perfect vegan alternatives to treasured food memories. I have collected vegan versions of 12 classic Christmas drinks and dishes for…

Vegan

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A Little Bit Naughty and a Little Bit Nice: 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Recipes from Eggnog to Yule…
A Little Bit Naughty and a Little Bit Nice: 12 Days of Vegan Christmas Recipes from Eggnog to Yule…
Vegan

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Oct 7, 2022

Vegan Kitchen Magic

How my grandmother’s spirit infused me with a love of kitchen witchery I got my introduction to kitchen witchery at my grandmother’s little table. This sounds more mysterious and wild than it was, but it was still essential to my development. My grandmother was not a witch, at least not…

Vegan

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Vegan Kitchen Magic
Vegan Kitchen Magic
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Sep 7, 2022

Back to School (or Any Time) Vegan Lunch Roundup: 20 Fun and Easy Meals for Every Lunchbox

It’s September: Let’s get those lunches planned. When my son was in elementary school, I started out making cute lunches inspired by the ol’ Vegan Lunch Box blog in the aughts but quickly discovered that both my son and I liked quick and easy meals more than we did visually…

Vegan

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Back to School (or Any Time) Vegan Lunch Roundup: 20 Fun and Easy Meals for Every Lunchbox
Back to School (or Any Time) Vegan Lunch Roundup: 20 Fun and Easy Meals for Every Lunchbox
Vegan

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Aug 5, 2022

What We Mean When We Talk About Grief

I am one of those people who keeps a paper calendar on the wall near my desk. I’m not so old school that I don’t also keep electronic reminders of upcoming meetings and important dates, but I have never quite been able to kick the habit of having an actual…

Pets

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What We Mean When We Talk About Grief
What We Mean When We Talk About Grief
Pets

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Jul 13, 2022

Back-to-the-Basics Veganism: Six Ways to Make it Easier and Less Expensive

No, I am not going to tell you to eat more silken tofu, don’t worry. — Even though in many ways, it’s easier than ever to be vegan today, a lot of times I think I could benefit to go back to the basics of living as a vegan in the 1990s. Not only is simplifying in this way better for my wallet and probably my…

Vegan

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Back-to-the-Basics Veganism: Six Ways to Make it Easier and Less Expensive
Back-to-the-Basics Veganism: Six Ways to Make it Easier and Less Expensive
Vegan

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Jul 5, 2022

A Tale of Two Illinois Towns and Two July 4 Parades

They were 30 miles apart but the lack of gun safety laws means everything is in our own backyard — In 1976, novelist, memoirist and essayist Joan Didion wrestled to the ground what compelled her to write in a piece called “Why I Write,” which was excerpted from a collection of hers and published in the New York Times. It’s a great essay. You can find it online. …

Guns

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A Tale of Two Illinois Towns and Two July 4 Parades
A Tale of Two Illinois Towns and Two July 4 Parades
Guns

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Marla Rose

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Marla Rose is a Chicago-area writer and co-founder of VeganStreet.com and VeganStreetMedia.com.

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