Small kids often ask “Why?” in response to everything you tell them. It’s a normal part of development and indicates a healthy curiosity about the world around them. But when my kids were teenagers, they

Maybe you’ve heard the one, familiar piece of expert advice on what to do if you’re ever in a relationship with a narcissist. That advice is to leave. Apparently, there’s no hope of ever changing the behavior

Buchu is the new health crazeThis anti-inflammatory herb is a fynbos shrub. Read more here:

I don't take many supplements because I believe in consuming whole-foods. Nutrients in isolation lack the accompanying enzymes found in the nutrient's original food source. But there is one nutrient I

Do you crave salt? It might be that you're craving the iodine in salt. Do you crave being near the ocean? It might be that you're craving the iodine naturally present in the sea water and air. Iodine is

I don't have the time or money to purchase a look. Plus, spending a half hour painting chemicals onto my face doesn't fit with my idea of a simple life. If using lots of makeup sticks and brushes and wedges

Most of our habits are conditioned responses. One thing that used to complicate my life a lot was pill popping. Nothing serious, really, just over-the-counter solutions to any number of problems, and an

Living simply isn't a new idea. It's a back-to-basics, in some ways old-fashioned, often spiritual way of approaching each day. It doesn't have to be austere, but it generally involves the idea that less

One way to simplify is to find one tool with many uses. This is the opposite of what our consumer culture tells us to do. The message of advertising is that we need a myriad of specialized products to

Choosing simplicity doesn't mean I'm a luddite. Proponents of voluntary simplicity are often accused of being luddites, people opposed to technology. It's not hard to see why; some of us advocate living

My life got simpler when I made some difficult choices. Our choices and lives have inverse levels of ease. Choices that are easy to make often complicate our lives. The reason for this is that "life"

Voluntary simplicity is choosing to live more simply. One of the first ways we can simplify our lives is to identify a ripe area. That area would represent habits of over-consumption and under-use. An

The concept of voluntary simplicity simply means choosing to lead a more simple life. In the series : voluntary steemplicity : I'm going to look at voluntary simplicity, its history, its tenets, its methods,

Sound technology has been improving at a fast rate over the last few years. Two engineering students at George Mason University have developed a fire extinguisher that transmits a donut of low-frequency

A post by @gavvet entitled Is there a scientific basis for Jesus Christ? put forward the idea that sin can be defined as something that moves people into a state of disorder. I find this a fascinating

This list may seem short, but that's mainly because Trump’s campaign staff includes so many non-professionals who aren’t beltway insiders. This may seem like a good thing to some, as Washington needs more

Steemit is an incentivized market, which is why so many people are watching it with interest - some hoping it will succeed wildly (because look, market forces work!) and some hoping it will crash and burn

Several members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign staff have lobbied for corporations that are pretty un-progressive. Do her progressive supporters realize this? The Grocery Manufacturers Association

Hi everyone! My real name is Stephanie and I'm new to Steemit. I run geke.us (where I put all my venn diagrams showing the overlap between Democrats and big business) - see below. I do Exposing Progressive

(I'm the author of Cost Benefit Jr., an economics textbook for kids, so most of my work has economic undertones. Galloglass is a work in progress, set in medieval Ireland and populated with knights, faeries,