It’s been a pathetic summer till now. Out of the six swimming classes my daughter had this summer (once every Wednesday), we enjoyed the sun only once. Three times it rained torrentially. For the pool, we pack swim suit, dress,…
In a previous post I wrote about how incense can be a carcinogenic. Now it’s time to think of candles too. Unfortunately, in the same lines. Candles can be found everywhere in my house and I your house is probably…
I don’t know how I managed to delete the original article I wrote about sunscreen. It took me quite a while to research and write so I have been seriously upset by the incident. But now I am recovering from…
My baby, who is a “shy princess-witch-giant-fairy” these days, will only wear skirts and dresses and legs (“no pants, mami, they’re ugaly”). Mami is happy, because this gives her a chance to do some more sewing and skirts represent the…
When writing is not going well for me, as it is sadly happening at the moment, I find solace in working with my hands. I stay away from the computer and clear my mind. Knitting is my favorite occupation for…
It hasn’t been a productive gardening season. Not yet. It has been raining a lot. And it has been cold. And digging the soil is really, really hard. My meditation / aromatherapy garden is still mostly in my head. The…
I was driving to pick up my daughter from school one day when I heard an interesting talk on the radio. It was about the ability of our oceans to regenerate from all the destruction that we cause. Until recently,…
As you probably know already, I am new to gardening. Never cared for it much before. But after moving into our new house a year and a half ago, it has become an important part of our life. We have…
My latest worry: we live our daly lives surrounded by machines and devices that use electricity and radio waves and emit electromagnetic fields (EMF) and they are affecting us in ways we don’t yet understand. Besides the TVs, CD players,…
According to a research of the Institutes of Biophysical Research Germany, released in 1999 (and cited by all the companies that market salt crystal products, including Gama International to which I linked) salt crystal lamps are “natural ionizers” and its…