All posts by: Jennie Lyon

About Jennie Lyon

Jennie Lyon is a green lifestyle writer, owner of a virtual assistant firm + mother of one teenage boy in sunny Florida. She posts on simple, fun ways families can go green together - starting with her own.

Love is in the air. The sweet scents of red roses are filling storefronts in anticipation of Valentine’s Day next Saturday. Last year 257 million roses were grown just for February 14th, and for 2015 the National Retail Federation expects 37.8% of Americans (mostly men) will give flowers, spending $2.1 billion dollars. A flower seems […]

Snow flakes, skin flakes Baby, it may be cold outside, but at least we’re cozy inside. Not roasting chestnuts by the fireplace, but with our indoor centralized heating system. Who needs romanticism when we need warmth? Exposure to those blasts of dry heated air all winter long turn our puckers into scaly, flaky, totally unkissable […]