Does it go back to cave times–this urge to purge body, home, and soul as soon as winter starts to wane? Did Cathy Cavesister look at all the pelts in her closet each March, shake her furry head and start loading buffalo bags full of unworn or overly worn items? And then decide she had…

There’s been a flurry of celebrity illnesses and injuries this week, and two of them jumped off the screen (sigh…remember when things used to jump off of pages?) because in both cases, humor seems to be part of the healing. First, “Today” show host Matt Lauer flipped off his bicycle in an attempt to avoid…

I have a cousin who’s a homeopath, and for months she’d been asking if she could “give me a bath.” I’d heard about–and been intrigued by–the practice, which is different from a standard homeopathy treatment in which remedies are taken orally, but is a longstanding tradition in anthroposophic medicine. So I agreed to take the…

We try and steer away from politics here, but we are openly swooning over the Obamas’ decision to grow a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. According to The New York Times, it will have 55 varieties of vegetables, including kale, collards, arugula, and chard. There will also be a patch of berries, herbs like…

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