
healthy body-care products: an overview
This is the overview to a multi-part series. You can skip ahead to posts about facial care, skin...

healthy skin-care products guide
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clean facial-care products guide
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healthy hair-care products guide
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best clean body soaps
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weight loss is a lie
I know: "Weight" and "diet" are dirty words. That's because you've been lied to about what they...

it’s a turmeric day in the neighborhood
Back in May, I spent a weekend day turning a pound of fresh turmeric into a variety of edible...

my non-coffee evolution — and the cacao solution
People love coffee. It feels like a groovy, grown-up thing. Bitter may not be a kids flavor, but I...

makyng mylk
There are some store-bought things that just annoy me — they're expensive, they're full of crappy...

the salad beautification project
I know we're often fed up about all the food rules — eat this, don't eat that, only eat that in...

more freezer tricks to beat the heat
Baby, it's hot outside… Here are a few more ways you can use your freezer to help beat the heat....

healthy DIY popsicles to beat the heat
Just before the once-in-a-thousand-years heatwave hit the Pacific Northwest, I wrote about beating...

eating in a heatwave, part 1
For the past couple of weeks I’ve had a song from the musical, Oklahoma!, stuck in my mind. It’s a...

sleep matters
As we move through the next stages of the pandemic — hopefully soon to some kind of new normal —...

lilac season — in the kitchen
I spent unfortunate number of my gardening years dismissing the idea of planting flowers. There...

spring scorcher salad smoothie
What's that picture in the header? If you look carefully you may notice some bubbles: It's a close...

four ways food choices impact mood
When a journalist friend messaged me recently for help understanding the ways food choices affect...

lemons: a love story
When I was a tiny baby, I’m told that one of my uncles decided to be mischievous with me. “I’m...