Archive - Spirit of Change Magazine

Whole Foods Healthy Cooking: Cooking on a Budget

The one question I can count on being asked each time I do a cooking class is about suggestions on how to keep the cost down.

Homemade Green Cleaners

A walk down the cleaning aisle of a supermarket offers a dazzling array of products all designed to get the job done quicker in a new and improved way. But at what cost to our health and our environment?

Musings on Self Confidence

What is invisible and imaginary yet has more impact in steering the course of your life than even a million dollar bank account? Your self image.

Sacred Soul Stories

I used to feel badly when people made these comments to me after looking at my artwork...

Choosing Serenity in a Hostile World

Dear Editor, There is a serious error in your Nov/Dec ’04 issue in the article entitled “Can You Too, Live To Be 122?” Dr. Glaser implies that readers should eat plenty of Brazil nuts because they contain the antioxidant selenium.

We Are All Swans: Sexual Self Image in the Real World

Whether by accident, illness, aging or the cards life deals you any time from birth onwards, at some point in life many of us face obstacles to sexuality.

True Healing

A few months ago, I fled with my small child to a woman’s shelter to find refuge from a violent husband. Several weeks later, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit And Power

What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats?

Null and Void

The announcement that the California Supreme Court would rule within the month on the legality of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s initiative granting of marriage licenses to same-sex couples had been made weeks earlier.

The Place Where Healing Begins

The creative process knows many cycles, those that take us into the depths of being, those where we stride into the world, and everything in between.

Cooking Made Easy

Most people understand the link between good health and the foods they choose to consume.

Creating A Green Home Backyard Sanctuary

Many native plant species and animals are loosing their habitats. The state of Washington loses over 35,000 acres of wildlife habitat to housing and other development each year.

Liberating Our Gardens

Cultivate a special garden space to grow your own healing essence remedies.

Shrooms: Not Just For Salad Anymore

A visionary biologist says mushrooms are potent antiviral and antibacterial agents, as well as key boosters to the human immune system. They also might end up saving the Earth.

A Day Full of Grace

It all started when I met Grace -- that really was her name - in the breakfast line at the hospital cafeteria.

Musings: Nature Indoors and Out

As a fresh year settles into our lives, our thoughts turn naturally towards hopes of change and renewal

Scalia To Synagogue: Jews Are Safer With Christians In Charge

Antonin Scalia, the man most likely to be our next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, turned history on its head recently when he attended an Orthodox synagogue in New York and claimed that the Founders intended for their Christianity to play a part in government.