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In my perfect world, I would grow all our vegetables in the backyard with our own compost for fertilizer. I’d have chickens for eggs and even a milking cow for all our dairy products. My husband would hunt for our meat, and I’d sprout and soak all our grains and make all of our baked… Continue Reading →
One of my all-time most popular posts is How I Got Off Nexium. Not a week goes by that I don’t get new comments on this post or a personal email asking for advice or sharing a success story. A lot of people want to know how I did it, and how long it took… Continue Reading →
We’re an allergy family. Seasonal allergies plague 3 out of the 5 of us, we all have some level of allergic reaction to dogs and cats and horses, and then there are the food allergies and sensitivities. Most of us have a mild form of asthma, and there’s a history of eczema as well. Science is… Continue Reading →
I ran another 5K last night. Let me preface that by saying that I spent the day chaperoning a field trip with my daughter’s first grade class — to the Philadelphia Zoo. I’m pretty sure that every school in a 35-mile radius was at the zoon on a field trip yesterday. It was insanity. We… Continue Reading →
This picture keeps coming up on my Google ads. Wanna know why? Well, that’s cuz Google is smart enough to know what sites you recently visited and even what products you viewed, and then it shows you ads based on your recent web activity. Creepy, right? But that’s not the point of this post. The… Continue Reading →
I ran a 10K yesterday. You have no idea how monumental this is. Me. The girly-girl who couldn’t run a mile without walking… or getting bored… or wimping out. Me, the girl who brought an entire camping trip home early because I couldn’t walk up a mountain. I tried to be a runner my whole… Continue Reading →
As we continue this dairy and gluten free experiment with our youngest daughter, the honeymoon is wearing off and reality is setting in. I can personally attest, as an adult with food restrictions, how very hard it can be sometimes to watch those around you eating foods you love and crave, and how devastating it… Continue Reading →
I read something recently that made a lot of sense — a natural treatment for acne that might actually work! Fermented cod liver oil! (This is the one that I buy.) I read it somewhere, and then I did a quick google search and found lots of people proclaiming the benefits of cod liver oil as… Continue Reading →
I started the year going great guns with my running and planning to run 13 races in 2013. I logged my first race on January 19th with a race time of 28:36 — within seconds of my last 5K race time in November, which was no small feat. It was a challenge for several reasons.… Continue Reading →
Everyone’s talking about the flu. Oh, the hype. It drives me bananas. How can “this be the worst year yet for the flu” every. single. year??? Don’t get me wrong. I know the flu is a horrible experience at best, and at its worst, yes… It’s deadly. I know of someone who just lost a… Continue Reading →
I’m glad you're here! I'm a writer, talker, coffee addict and collector of people and handbags. I live outside of Philly with my husband, 3 children, and a terribly spoiled shih tzu named Savannah. Read More →
