With a Capitol Bean

Published in Hope Magazine HOW MUCH are coffee farmers getting from that three-dollar latte? The global price of coffee has plunged nearly 50 percent in the last three years, in turn plunging some 25 million small-scale coffee producers in poverty, according to hunger...

The Aisle Less Travelled

Published in the San Francisco Bride magazine YOUR WEDDING setting is like a stage to play out one of life’s biggest dramas. What tone do you want to set for the next chapter of your journey together? Silly or serene, romantic or rowdy, innocent or imaginative?  The...

Perchance to Dine in Wine Country

Published in the October 2002 issue of Alaska Airlines Magazine THOUGH FOLKS here will try to tell you that fermented grapes are a food group, one cannot live on wine alone, even in California’s Wine Country. And who would want to? Tucked between the vineyards...

Light Between the Bars

Published in The World and I, Spring 2002 BO AND SITA Lozoff love the simple life. They wake in their small cabin on a wooded ashram just outside of Durham, N.C., and walk through a routine of meditation, meals and mail. To the graying couple, life couldn’t be...

A Cop Who Cares

Published in the October 2002 issue of Hope Magazine Homeless people with mental illness are often punished for “nuisance crimes” they can’t help committing. But Officer Joel Fay knows how to help them get their lives on track. IT’S NOT WHAT...