an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
I thought I had a summer cold. Bonk. I was wrong. I have summer allergies. There’s a thin…sometimes thick…coat of yellow POLLEN on everything outdoors here. Park outside? POLLEN on your car. My outdoor furniture? Covered in POLLEN. The screens on my windows and doors…collecting POLLEN. I look outdoors and my eyes get watery and… Read more →
I went to bed on Saturday night thinking, “I have absolutely, positively nothing that I HAVE to do tomorrow.” Needless to say, I slept soundly. And my summer cold had me snoring Mr. Prevention out of the bedroom. Poor dude. I slept like a champ, however…all the way til after 9am. It was glorious. Yesterday… Read more →
We don’t know our neighbors well…at all. It’s actually kind of sad. We wave. We’re polite. We’ve even exchanged insurance information when one of them backed into Mr. Prevention’s car just weeks after we moved in. But we don’t know them. Imagine my surprise when we received a graduation party invite to our neighbor’s daughter’s… Read more →
At my first job back in Tulsa, I started an employee garden behind the clinic. In the Oklahoma heat, keeping anything alive in July and August was a full-time job. Needless to say, the task was large and the number of people willing to help when the heat was at its hottest were few. I… Read more →
Michigan had a frost last week. The owners of my Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) were concerned that the unusually cold May temperatures would ruin what had been planted. After last year’s fruit crop being completely trashed by the weather, I was concerned, too. But it sounds like everything survived. Phew. Hopefully, just hopefully, we can… Read more →
Everyday Healthy Cooking: 100 Light and Delicious Recipes to Promote Energy, Weight Loss, and Well-Being
