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The other night I wasn’t feeling so well, so I made myself stay home. But knowing the potential dangers of a cold, damp, Saturday day and evening spent alone, I wrote this note on my kitchen whiteboard. The idea was to remind myself that I have no moral obligation to host heaviness and misery, even…

The last couple of years my dear friend B. has sent me a divine birthday treat, courtesy of his friend’s AMAZING company, Allison’s Gourmet. I’ve now had the brownies and the fudge. And OMG, so good. The ingredients are organic and vegan (though anyone I’ve shared these with is like, “Really, vegan? But this tastes…

As home remedies go, this might be the most widely known/practiced/recommended.  But why does gargling with warm, salty water help soothe a sore throat?  Since I’m doing this multiple times a day–and since I feel like it helps–I decided to Google the gargle and attempt a better explanation than “because it does.” First of all,…

I knew this day would come…the day I had to once again face the scritchy, gag-gy nightmare that is known to most people as a throat culture.  When I was a kid, throat cultures were screeching, Mom-bribing-with-candy-rewards, “We need more nurses!” affairs for me.  I know I’m not the only one to feel this way…

The sparkling Janice Taylor of the Our Lady of Weight Loss blog feels strongly that skipping breakfast is not a good idea. She further believes that dehydration can cause irritability and headaches. To solve both problems (feed two birds with one seed, as it were), she offers a lovely, hydrating breakfast smoothie recipe: Ingredients: 1…

I’ve long been a fan of the hilarious “Inappropriate Yoga Guy” web series. And now Yoga Journal.com has started their very own exclusive webisodes starring Ogden. He’s the guy in yoga class who comes too close, “oms” too loud, and brags too much about his Himalayan treks eating fresh goji berries and practicing tantra in a high-altitude…

Yesterday, I tried really hard to focus on the positive aspect of losing my voice and being consigned to silence while I recover my health.  But today, as I re-read the post I thought, “Can I take that back?”  Clearly my grumpy gland is up…. I guess I won’t rescind my statement that contemplative silence…

It’s National Poetry Month!  I’m not actually that big on poems in my everyday reading life, but there is one that comes to mind when someone asks me, “what’s your favorite poem?” My junior year of high school, we studied the 16th century’s metaphysical poets, including John Donne, in Ms. Martin’s English class. I found…

Duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh, you say it’s your birthday? It’s my birthday too, yeah! Yep, today is my birthday. And as much as I’m like, “uhg, I’m oooollld now,” I’m also excited, because, well, I love my birthday. I think it’s pretty profound to celebrate our very fact, our existing self, our birth. And incredibly rare that we…

For the days when you feel like, “Is it me?” Alas, maybe not.  “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Jiddu Krishnamurti    
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