TheGoodMuse

Best Friends Animal Society is guided by a simple philosophy: kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us.

“Oh yummy! This is heaven in bar form!” I think as I shove another Theo’s Bread and Chocolate chocolate bar sample into my mouth. I’m at a yoga class benefit, but at the moment I am completely distracted by the ...

“I am going to a protest!” I’ve been saying that to anyone who will listen for a whole week. That’s right, mild mannered me at a protest. A real protest. I’m a rebel. Yup. I am going to protest! And ...

Project Angel Food's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses. Volunteers and staff cook and deliver free and nutritious meals prepared with love throughout Los Angeles County, acting out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness do not wait.

I can now with confidence cook for an entire professional football team.  Would I ever want to? Not really, but I now know interesting tid bits like: to make enough mashed potatoes for a group that size you would need ...

Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing.

  I am about to do something slightly ungrateful, definitely heinous, very uncomfortable, but in the end completely necessary: I’m going to blow the environmental whistle (or horn) on many of the non-profits I’ve been helping this year.  Let me ...