While in Atlanta I took Vanessa, my grandchildren, Laura Turner Seydel (Ted’s daughter) and her 3 children, Laura Elizabeth, Vassar and John R, out to lunch at a most unusual restaurant…R Thomas on Peachtree St. I filmed John R’s birth and now he is about to leave for college in Denver where he wants to study business and biology in the hopes of helping to save the planet. Laura is an avid environmental activist and consumer advocate. Vassar is a varsity cheerleader. Enjoy the pictures.… Click for more

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Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables

By MARK BITTMAN

WHAT will it take to get Americans to change our eating habits?… Click for more

I have no words for what I have felt these past days reading many of your blog comments. It is clear to me that even after all this time, there is so much healing to be done around the Vietnam War.… Click for more

I grew up during World War II. My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.… Click for more

Over the past few days there have been thousands of messages of support on my blog, Twitter, Facebook. I am so moved by what feels like a growing community.… Click for more

I have been deeply moved by the outpouring of support for me since QVC cancelled my appearance (yesterday morning). The tweets, re-tweets, blog comments, Facebook “Likes”–have all bolstered my spirit and my confidence that truth will win in the end.… Click for more

• At My Ranch in New Mexico: Me, Howell and Sharon Ferguson http://say.ly/DyIv4W #
• At my ranch in New Mexico: the Los Alamos fires still burn!

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I was to have been on QVC today to introduce my book, “Prime Time,” about aging and the life cycle. The network said they got a lot of calls yesterday criticizing me for my opposition to the Vietnam War and threatening to boycott the show if I was allowed to appear.… Click for more

Excerpted from Jane Fonda’s NYTimes #1 Bestseller “My Life So Far”

As I write this I realize that I’ve done a good deal of thinking about acting in the fifteen-year hiatus I have taken, and I’d like to try to give you a sense of what it’s like, at least for me.… Click for more

• I wish I knew at 40 what I know now. Tomrrw morning at 11am ET will tlk about that & more on @QVC.

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This is one of my favorites, and can be done almost anywhere. It will strengthen your core, tone the legs, and firm the buttocks.… Click for more

It’s graduation day! I am moving from a blog to a website. I feel I am growing up as a techie and I am so excited.… Click for more

At 14, Mary Williams moved from the poverty-scathed streets of East Oakland to Jane Fonda’s hacienda in Santa Monica. Decades later, Williams returns home to find out if blood really is thicker than water.… Click for more

I am on the Advisory Board of Food Day because I think we need a national movement to begin to change how Americans eat and to alter government policies regarding food.… Click for more

I eat a healthy breakfast of high fiber, low fat cereals and fruit. I don’t snack much but carry apples and string cheese with me in case I get hungry so I won’t reach for something sugary.… Click for more

Robyn shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a “Real Food” evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a “typical” breakfast.… Click for more

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July 8th

Last night I met up with son Troy for his surprise birthday dinner. He’s not often surprised but his wife, Simone, did a good job of pulling it off.… Click for more

I have long had a relationship with Big Sur. When I was 22 years old, and had a week-long break from filming “Sunday In New York,” I learned to drive so that I could go to Big Sur to find Henry Miller.… Click for more