Tell your dog to get ready for quinoa kibble. Pet food trends are following their owners’ tastes. Even the meat-loving brands are marketing plants, the very ingredients they once sidelined-just not the plants the industry has historically relied on, like the high-protein soybean and corn-gluten meals. Instead, Blue Buffalo Co. Ltd. offers a Chicken & […]

Amy Morin knows a lot about resiliency. A licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist and foster parent, she has devoted her life to helping others resolve problems and conflicts. But she also has personal experience with building resiliency. While in her 20s Morin faced the unexpected loss of her mother and, three years later, the sudden […]

We’re nearing sweater weather, which means we’re nearing stuffed-pepper weather. I have a soft spot for stuffed peppers, because they were in my mother’s weekly dinner rotation: Hers were green bells, as was the fashion in the 1970s, and stuffed with beef and rice, covered in tomato sauce and baked. I liked them, but I […]