One of the fun new kitchen toys I got myself at the end of last year had been on my back burner for a long time. Playing with my new SodaStream for 10 straight days turned out to be a great lesson in the power of trying new things — even if you find the old things...
Trying to find the best mask to prevent COVID infection (and colds, flus and other respiratory viruses) — especially when most folks have abandoned theirs? I’ve got you. Prevention is a foundation to all systems of health. So masking up is good medicine, and even more...
One cool thing about December of 2022 is the way so many of the season’s holidays actually overlap. Although lots of people consider Hanukkah the “Jewish Christmas” it entirely isn’t. Sometimes it happens to fall around the same season, but...
Many years ago, I was visiting some family friends who’d just bought a new house. I wanted to bring them some kind of present, but we lived in very different worlds. I was scraping by getting ready to start medical school. They were legitimately rich people for...
It’s super weird to write about wildfire smoke in the second half of October. It’s even weirder to need to write about wildfire smoke in the second half of October. Hopefully, the fall rains will have truly begun by the time you read this. But as I write, the smoke...
When the days are bright and warming but it’s not quite time yet for fiddling around in the garden, it might just be time to focus on edible and medicinal weeds. On one such day, I came across some beautiful dandelion roots – and it is a perfect time to start...
