Apr
22
We all know how it goes. Earth Day rolls around and its all over the news, our inbox is flooded with emails about how to green our lives, we talk to people at a local community celebration, get all fired up, and then the warm weather hits, we’re outside, and we forget all about the …
Apr
21
My pal–and devoted reader–over at Woman with a Hatchet has bestowed an award upon ChezArtz and it is time for me to pass it on. Blogging is something that I’ve been thinking a lot about recently as I expanded from just ChezArtz to Toys, Naturally and GreenArtz, then to BlogHer and now, I’m happy to …
Apr
18
At this time every year since its inception, our local Gentle Parenting group has a debate about sunscreens. Are they safe? Should you use them or just cover up and stay out of the sun? Which ones are best? How often to apply? I started the conversation this year both at my son’s preschool and …
Apr
15
I’m in internet junkie. I’m an email junkie. My name is Julie Artz and I am an addict. Seriously. I get that prickly uncomfortable feeling when I know there are emails in my Inbox that I haven’t read or responded to. I ignore everything around me when I’m absorbed in whatever I’m doing on the …
Apr
14
Saturday was our second trip to the Farmer’s Market this season, and although I managed to forget my pencil and paper, I did consider it a research trip for our official foray into the 100 Mile Diet. And boy, was it a learning experience. Let me preface my remarks by saying that, although I lived …
Apr
07
My pal over at CrunchyDomesticGoddess sent me a simple email last month that has been stuck in my craw every since. She just asked what natural cosmetics I had tried and liked, and I was so embarrassed to write back and say I didn’t have any to recommend. Not because they’re all bad, mind you, …
Apr
06
Some people may have mistakenly believed spring arrived here in Boulder county on the 20th of March, but for our family, it returned at 8am Saturday morning with the Boulder Farmer’s Market. For weeks I had been enviously reading blogs from the Bay area talking about the good eats available at their farmer’s markets, so …
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