This is the third post in a series on healthy body-care products. Jump to the overview, skin care, hair care or body soap. The best support for your surface is actually internal: Drinking water, limiting (or eliminating) sugar, getting your zzzzs, eating lots...
This is the fourth post in a series on healthy body-care products. Jump to the overview, skin care, facial care or soap. As with all health issues, the internal affects the external. Eating well, managing inflammation, stress and hormones all can make a difference in...
People love coffee. It feels like a groovy, grown-up thing. Bitter may not be a kids flavor, but I always love the smell of my mother’s coffee. (Hi, Mom!) I tried to like it. At my first corporate job, I went in every day to get coffee. At first, I thought,...
There are some store-bought things that just annoy me — they’re expensive, they’re full of crappy things, they’ve got packaging not conducive to proper disposal, and they’re so easy to make at home. One such species are the most of the milk...
Just before the once-in-a-thousand-years heatwave hit the Pacific Northwest, I wrote about beating the heat with a blender and a freezer. (And my beloved watermelon gazpacho recipe.) Today I want to talk a little more about the freezer half of that duo — before the...
I spent unfortunate number of my gardening years dismissing the idea of planting flowers. There were some exceptions: Calendula, rose, lavender — because those are all medicinal, too. But flowers just for pretty? What gardener has enough room for that? As you know,...
