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…

What a small resting place in a subdivision says about our past and why it’s a cautionary tale for the future — On Sunday, I was feeling that familiar invigoration I can always rely on in early autumn, as the leaves are just on the verge of changing and the earliest of households start displaying their Halloween decorations. I convinced my son and husband that we should drive out to Geneva, IL…

The Chicago area is now experiencing the triple digit weather so many have lived through (or are currently still enduring) after a fairly cool summer by our standards. I am not complaining! Give me pleasant autumn weather year-round and I’d be happy. I thought it might be nice to gather…

Anxiety and I, well, we go back. I do recall a sepia-toned time when I didn’t have anxiety as my copilot but it’s been a while, as they say. After a pretty idyllic early childhood, anxiety started to seep its way into my body over time, like dark ink from…

“Let your heart break so your spirit doesn’t.” Andrea Gibson I was in the car on the way to Duluth to vacation with my family when I saw the news about Sinéad O’Connor. A dark pall fell over all of us, as I know it did for millions of people…

And why we shouldn’t ever. — “I understand that you’re vegan but why can’t you just keep it to yourself?” If you’ve been vegan for any length of time, you’re probably familiar with this sentiment, one that is expressed to us in a million different ways, from more polite appeals to reactions that are simmering —…

The youth-led Raven Corps had their work stolen from them and this matters. — I will start out by saying that in our world full of soundbites and choppy, quick copy, this piece is on the longer side, though I hope it’s not longwinded. It needs to be said and it’s a complex, thorny subject that bucks against the constraints of succinctness. I wrote…

So much vegan food to eat, so little more room in the belly… — Last year was my first visit to the National Restaurant Association Show and to say I was impressed is an understatement. I was like a kid in a candy store, a candy store full of vegan eggs with yolks that exploded into a bright yellow dribble when pierced, plant-based chick’n…

My mother passed away after a long, excruciating decline ten years ago and I still avoid sidewalk cracks as if my life depended on it, because for a time, it sure felt like it did. “Step on a crack and you break your mother’s back” was a childhood rhyme we…