The Better World Shopping Guide

I just bought The Better World Shopping Guide from my favorite store One World Market (not to be confused with World Market). One World Market is a fair trade store on Ninth Street in Durham. Anyways you can buy this book here on their website, it's only 10 bucks.

The books tells you how to better shop for everything you can possible buy-gas, computers, soap, chocolate, etc. It tells you the companies to stay away from because they have child slave labor, they are environmentally negligent, don't treat their employees fair, etc. You'll be shocked which companies are really bad.

The whole premise of the book is that every dollar we spend we vote for good or for bad, so why not spend our money to help workers, children, environment, and the world a better place?

Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner

I finished Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner last weekend. It was a good book, but it wasn't my favorite out of her 3 books. This is her first book she wrote about her faith story from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity. One of the things that I didn't like is because I am very linear in my thinking, and she tended to jump around when telling the story of her life. I sometimes found it hard to follow.

Some great things that I liked about the book is that she speaks of her journey to God, as just that a journey, God in search of her. She says she doesn't have a specific day that she was saved. Which I think is a lot of our stories; either we were really young and don't remember a moment or it was just that a copulation of moments to a place where we believed. She is a great writer and I love her work. Check out my other reviews of her other 2 books, Mudhouse Sabbath & Real Sex.

Weekend at the Cabin

We love going to the cabin especially in the fall! The leaves were gorgeous. This past weekend we took our friends Kevin & Julie with us to our friend Peggy's cabin in the mountains of Virginia. It was so fun just relaxing, playing games, laughing, napping, reading, watching movies, hiking, cooking, facials, and making carmel apple ciders & lattes!
Wishing I were there now .. . .