I have been working as the advertising director for LILIPOH for over sixteen years. I have been enjoying many beautiful working relationships with our awesome and creative advertisers. Both article picks are based on my interest on these topics as well as the quality of the articles.
Summer 2014 Dear readers, With this issue I hope that you will be inspired to take steps to simplify your life. I am convinced it’s the next big thing. I am fascinated that almost everyone I know is overwhelmed, over-extended, spread thin, and doesn’t have enough hours in the day. Complaints of being too busy are common. I ... Read More ►
David Tresemer, PhD, is the founder of the StarHouse in Boulder, Colorado, and the developer of the Solar Cross system for the “star poem” qualities of each of the 360 zodiacal degrees. He has been an organic/biodynamic farmer and has written The Scythe Book: Mowing Hay, Cutting Weeds, and Harvesting Small Grains with Hand Tools, which has sold a thousand copies every ... Read More ►
Anthroposophic Palliative Nursing Renate Varriale, RN Spring 2019 The questions around how we care for our elders are many, and they grow more urgent as the number of retirees and their need for care increase dramatically each year. In his recent acclaimed book, Being Mortal, Atul Gawande, MD, takes a sober look at aging and death in our ... Read More ►
When My Child Says “No” Nancy Blanning First published Spring 2019 When we watch a little child, particularly one under age three (but even a four-year old will delight us), we see so much imitation. The little one wants to do everything we do—sweeping, scrubbing, vacuuming, cooking. And the child will also imitate our gestures, repeat our indiscrete use ... Read More ►
I took over as the editor of LILIPOH in 2021, but the magazine has been a part of my life for nearly as long as I can remember. My mother, Christy Korrow, became the editor of the biodynamic section when I was just six or seven years old and soon took over as LILIPOH’s managing editor. I was surrounded by ... Read More ►
The Walk Mary Lou Sanelli February 2023 Once a month or so, I walk with a small group of women. It’s one of many routines that keep me sane and steady or at least help keep me sane and steady. We meet for company and exercise, of course, but we also like to blow off steam about the state of the world. ... Read More ►
Radical Farmwives: Math and the Farm-Schooled Boy Robin Bela Verson First published Summer 2014 After graduating from college, Paul Bela and Robin Verson met as farm interns at Farmer John Peterson’s Angelic Organics, nearly twenty years ago. After spending a few years working on farms around the world, they purchased their own farm in rural Metcalfe County, Kentucky, where ... Read More ►
Being with young children and their families is a privilege. One gets to see the earnest care and attention parents devote to raising healthy, happy, polite children. At a time when civility seems an old-fashioned and outdated concept, parents are striving to encourage “please” and “thank you” in their children’s vocabularies. This is an attractive alternative to the harangue of ... Read More ►
There is an advertisement picturing a middle-aged couple walking down the beach. As they walk, the woman’s image slowly dissolves, leaving just one beach walker. Families of people with dementia experience this feeling of dissolution and loss. In the early stage of dementia, the afflicted patients themselves can often feel loss and sorrow as their own organizational principle weakens; their ... Read More ►
