“My goal is to change the norms of illness etiquette so that, from the moment your friend confides her or his diagnosis, the two of you establish a policy of complete candor — that you articulate, ‘I want to be useful and supportive to you throughout this ordeal but I’m not always going to know the right thing to say or do. I won’t always be able to anticipate your needs or read your mood, so I hope you’ll give me a heads up on what’s helpful and what’s not. Would you promise to be honest with me?’”—Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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The film “A Place at the Table” opens our eyes to the crisis of food insecurity and malnutition in America. It releases on March 1st in theaters, on iTunes and On Demand everywhere.

Inspired by the film, Plum Organics, the leading provider of organic baby foods and toddler snacks, has developed a “Super Smoothie” product, created exclusively for donation to babies and toddlers across the US. It is an organic and nutritionally dense fruit, veggie, and grain blend, designed specifically to fulfill the nutritional deficits of babies and toddlers suffering from food insecurity.

Plum Organics will donate a “Super Smoothie” for every book or movie ticket purchased, or film downloaded over the film’s opening weekend.

Army of God by David Axe and Tim Hamilton. Coming March 12th. Design by Dre Lopez

Steven Spielberg’s LINCOLN opens in theaters today! Go see it! It’s an incredible film. In honor of Lincoln-mania, we’re giving away copies of our companion book to the film, Lincoln: A President for the Ages. Enter to win over on Goodreads.com!