Martha Stewart wants to interview some HuffPost favorites on her new programming for the Hallmark Channel, the New York Daily News reports. Stewart has her eye on House Speaker and Most Stylish Female Politician Nancy Pelosi, saying, "She's a phenomenal woman, I mean, look at what she's done," and calling her "absolutely beautiful." Stewart also said she'd be interested in talking to Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.

She won't be sticking only to politics, though. The New York Post reports on September 19, Hallmark will air an hour-long, fashion-themed "Martha Stewart Presents" featuring interviews with designers Donna Karan, Diane Von Furstenberg, Tory Burch and J. Crew's Jenna Lyons. Stewart told the Post, "I'm attracted to groups of people," like "the hottest, sexiest, young male movie stars -- who are they really, how do they live, how do they cope?...There's also my favorite comedians and how they come up with their material, how are they so talented and verbose and so fantastic?"

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I was out puttering in my garden this morning, planting a few new perennials - (I'm running out of space for planting new things!). My mind was on work, as it is a lot these days. I stood up for a second, and looked out over my now-5-year-old garden, and thought of how far we have come together. When I started it was rocks and sandy clay--a dusty, hard-packed, unproductive mess. Now I've got incredible bushes, trees, flowers, herbs, vegetables; and everything is filling in and working together to create a hospitable, productive, and beautiful garden. And working in the garden is a lot easier, too.

As I was napping on my couch a bit later (it's Sunday, mind you--even CEOs need a day of rest!), I started thinking about how good business is similar to organic gardening. I'm in my second year of the job as CEO of Rodale, and it's kind of like the second year of starting a new landscape--I can see the potential, and I can also see how far we have come...but as any gardener knows, there is lots more to be done. And as anyone who has seen me garden knows, I'm always a big dreamer! People have called me crazy...until they come back a few years later and see what I've done.

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Fleet Foxes debuted with such a spectacular grasp of Americana that the band seemed to hail from indeterminate time and space -- they could've came from the Great North Woods, the Mississippi Delta, the Blue Ridge Mountains -- when in fact they were from outside Seattle. Sure they garnered knee-jerk reactions to contemporaries like My Morning Jacket or Band of Horses but these were more to do with the mellifluously clear voice Robin Pecknold shares with Jim James or Ben Bridwell than anything else. Fleet Foxes have the sort of condensed sound that triggers a cascade of aural reminders without even approaching a facsimile of their influences.

They distill the history of American music with genre-busting focus. Their sound reminds me of a cake, or some other concoction where the individual components are apparent, yet indivisible from the larger whole. Rather than being followers of the "parfait" model -- a layer of woodsy folk here, a stratum of AM rock there, a dusting of sunny pop, a patina of Appalachian harmonies --Fleet Foxes are masters of synthesis. On their self-titled debut, the band channeled this energy into taught, arrangements that sailed forth beneath this tension; a sort of precise meandering. On Helplessness Blues they roam free, osmosing into extended jams, tempo shifts, drifting into open territories under a slack mainsail.

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With the spring teasing us with the warming rays of the sun, it's no surprise that people are asking once again about what white wine they should be trying. Some recommendations are pretty easy to make. In the New World, for example, telling someone about New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc or a Napa Chardonnay is pretty straightforward. Everyone knows the grape varieties and the styles are pretty well understood as well.

Venture abroad to France and things get a bit more difficult. Though once you get the grape and region association down, you know Burgundy is Chardonnay, Bordeaux is mostly a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon, Vouvray is Chenin Blanc - it's pretty straightforward.

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