You have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be alright. Without hope, not only are the gays, but the blacks, the seniors,...

We love road trips. There’s nothing better than piling in a car, setting off in one direction, and just seeing where the road takes us. We believe that cultivating curiosity is one of the keys to happiness—and for us, a good road trip is a surefire way to tap into...

From the very beginning, Earth Day was a very big deal.  Fifty-one years ago—on April 22, 1970—an estimated 20 million people gathered in streets across America to observe the first-ever Earth Day event. It was, by some accounts, the largest single-day protest in human history. And from there, it just...

No matter how much Winter we get, Spring always comes, no matter what. And just in the past week or two, we can finally say that Spring—like, real Spring, with flowers and everything—is finally upon us. (Well, most of us: it’s still 30 degrees and snowing in the mountains.) To...

Picture it: April 8, 2017, in Kingston, New York.  We were on the verge of a whole new adventure. We’d spent months preparing to open up our new shop. And in the midst of all that frenzied activity, one thought kept coming to us, over and over again:  “What if...