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Patrice Lewis is a freelance writer whose latest book is "The Simplicity Primer: 365 Ideas for Making Life more Livable." She is co-founder (with her husband) of a home woodcraft business. The Lewises live on 20 acres in north Idaho with their two homeschooled children, assorted livestock, and a shop that overflows into the house with depressing regularity. Visit her blog at www.rural-revolution.com.
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We'll always have Paris

by Patrice Lewis -- No doubt you've heard that the House of Representatives passed the $700-plus billion bailout of the U.S. financial system, thus shackling American citizens into an abyss of debt more…

Be afraid. Be very afraid

by Patrice Lewis -- The economy has been a frightening subject lately. Bank failures, government bailouts, mortgage crises, bankruptcies, plunging stock markets … it's enough to make anyone quake in their boots. more…

I guess I'm just a dim bulb

by Patrice Lewis -- Amidst all the current financial chaos, amidst global pandemonium and the spiraling economy, amidst the dangers from terrorism … you'll be glad to know that the U.S. government more…

Worshipping my oatmeal

by Patrice Lewis -- All eyes were on Denver a few weeks ago as the DNC held its national convention. Among all the hoopla, there's one thing I found spellbinding: the Democrats' more…

Rednecks vote

by Patrice Lewis -- I received a forwarded e-mail this week entitled "A View of Sarah Palin from someone who lives in Alaska." The ostensible author of this piece (a woman named more…

A no-nonsense bundle of estrogen

by Patrice Lewis -- I hate politics. I really do. It's repetitively, boringly obvious that most politicians are cut from the same cloth. I vote, of course. I study issues. I study more…

A golden opportunity

by Patrice Lewis -- Once upon a time in the mid-1930s, a baby girl named Lucille was born into what would eventually become a huge family of 13 children. This wasn't a more…

Homeschoolers say, enough already

by Patrice Lewis -- It happens. Some idiot parents have their children yanked out of the home because of abuse or neglect. The typical reported scenario is the kids were often malnourished, more…

Politicians and their pants

by Patrice Lewis -- A year or so ago, my oldest daughter asked, "Mom, what's a 'vow'?" I explained that a vow is a sacred promise, one that is bigger and more more…

The race-baiters' manufactured bigotry

by Patrice Lewis -- For the first time in history, this country has the opportunity to vote into the presidency a man with obvious African ancestry. Sen. Obama's success demonstrates something that more…