Yael’s Variety Hour: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Welcome to the weekly variety hour, where I share my favorite links from the past week. This week we’ve got a large handful of warnings, maple syrup and a small smattering of warm fuzzies. But first…

Shameless Self-Promotion

• I have an article on gentle detox methods in the March issue of Taste For Life. Find  the magazine for free in select co-ops and health food stores.

• If you live in Chippewa County, I have an article on plastic bags in Second Opinion.

• We have a product in the works! Details soon, I promise.

Watch Out!

• Hit By Car, Pedestrians Are Ticketed In Hospital Talk about adding insult to injury! Grist.org has the scoop (and video).

• Documents Reveal TSA Plan to Body Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers It’s the apocalypse! (From Forbes.com)

• Study: Most Plastics Leach Hormone-Like Chemicals NPR has the scoop. Stainless steel and glass it is!

No plastic, no jaywalking, no walking and no taking the train. Yikes! Here’s a few more things to watch out for. (For freelance writers and/or small business owners.)

• Avoid bad contracts. 5 Contract Clauses To Watch For–and Change If You Can, from the amazing Kelly James-Enger.

• Bad grammar can ruin your love life. Your Vs. You’re Confusion Too Difficult For Relationship to Overcome Don’t let this happen to you!

• 19 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Business. I wish I knew these, too! From Redhead Writing

Humor

• Crisis in Dairyland–For Richer and Poorer–Teachers Vs. Wall Street Jon Stewart nails it, again.

• Diary of a Self Help Drop-out: Flirting With the Four-Hour Work Week This article is hilarious. I dig.

Food For Thought

• How AOL’s Patch Can Win And Prove Us Wrong When We Say It’s A Horrible, Doomed Idea. It won’t be easy. From Business Insider.

• Bad Weather = Good For Maple Syrup. The silver lining! By Daniel Klein of the Perennial Plate.

• 20 Awesome Self-Development Questions. This will keep you busy for hours if you’re the reflective type.

• Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You I knew it!

• Go Easy on Yourself, A New Wave of Research Urges. You mean self-compassion is healthier than guilt, discipline and neglect? Well, if the New York Times says so…